Countries
Japan
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
National Language
Japan
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Europe
Minority Language
Palau
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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.
Similar To
Korean Language
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Not Available
Church Slavonic
Alphabets in
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Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
bok
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
hvala
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
kako si
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
laku noć
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
dobar dan
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
dobro jutro
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
molim
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Oprostite
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
Doviđenja
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Volim te
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Kagawa
Croatia
Dialect 2
Hakata
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Croatia
Dialect 3
Kansai
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
kansai
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Not Available
Hrvatski
French Name
japonais
croate
German Name
Japanisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Croats
Language Family
Japonic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms
Standard Forms
Japanese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1643
croa1245
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Japanese and Croatian 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 Japanese and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Croatian language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Croatian Difficulty
The Japanese vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese Alphabets and Croatian 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 Japanese and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.