Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
National Language
Austria
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
France, Germany, Indonesia
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
German and English Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Not Available
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Dutch-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Thank You
hvala
dankjewel
How Are You?
kako si
hoe gaat het met je?
Good Night
laku noć
goede Nacht
Good Evening
dobra večer
goedenavond
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
goedemiddag
Good Morning
dobro jutro
goedemorgen
I Love You
Volim te
Ik hou van jou
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
pardon
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Gronings
Where They Speak
Croatia
Netherlands
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Croatia
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Limburgian
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Belgium, Netherlands
Native Name
hrvatski
Nederlands
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Hollands, Nederlands
French Name
croate
néerlandais; flamand
German Name
Kroatisch
Niederländisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
Ethnicity
Croats
Dutch people
Origin
9th century
AD 450-500
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Dutch
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
mode1257
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
52-ACB-a
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic
Croatian and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Dutch language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Dutch word for "Thank You" is dankjewel. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Dutch Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Dutch Difficulty
The Croatian vs Dutch difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Dutch 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 Dutch are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Dutch, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Dutch time required is 24 weeks.