Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Austria
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
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Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Chinese.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Thank You
hvala
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
kako si
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
laku noć
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
dobra večer
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
dobro jutro
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Sorry
Oprostite
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Doviđenja
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Volim te
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Where They Speak
Croatia
China, United States of America
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Native Name
hrvatski
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
croate
chinois
German Name
Kroatisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Origin
9th century
1250 BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Chinese
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
Glottocode
croa1245
sini1245
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating
Croatian and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Chinese language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Chinese Difficulty
The Croatian vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.