Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Austria
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Not Available
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
kako si
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
laku noć
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
dobra večer
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
مساء الخير
Good Morning
dobro jutro
صباح الخير
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
اعذرني
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Maghrebi
Where They Speak
Croatia
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Croatia
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Levantine
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Cyprus, Levant
Native Name
hrvatski
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
German Name
Kroatisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Origin
9th century
512 CE
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Modern Standard Arabic
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
arab1395
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Croatian and Arabic Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Croatian and Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Arabic language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Arabic Difficulty
The Croatian vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Arabic Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Croatian and Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.