Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Austria
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Church Slavonic
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
bok
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
hvala
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
kako si
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
laku noć
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
dobra večer
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
dobro jutro
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
molim
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Oprostite
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Doviđenja
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Volim te
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Chakavian
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Croatia
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Chakavian
Olonets
Where They Speak
Croatia
Olonets
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Native Name
hrvatski
Русский
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
Russki
German Name
Kroatisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Croats
Russians
Origin
9th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
croa1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Croatian and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Russian language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Russian Difficulty
The Croatian vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.