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Swedish vs Croatian


Croatian vs Swedish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
9  
7

National Language
Sweden  
Austria  

Second Language
Finland  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe  
Europe  

Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics  

Interesting Facts
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
  • 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
Norwegian and Danish Language  
Serbain and Bosnian  

Derived From
Old Norse Language  
Church Slavonic  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
18  
8
25  
15

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
hej  
bok  

Thank You
tacka dig  
hvala  

How Are You?
hur mår du  
kako si  

Good Night
godnatt  
laku noć  

Good Evening
god kväll  
dobra večer  

Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag  
dobar dan  

Good Morning
god morgon  
dobro jutro  

Please
vänligen  
molim  

Sorry
ledsen  
Oprostite  

Bye
hej då  
Doviđenja  

I Love You
jag älskar dig  
Volim te  

Excuse Me
ursäkta mig  
Ispričavam se  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Dialects  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Gabon  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00  
9
660,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Dialects  
Chakavian  

Where They Speak
Georgia  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00  
7
5,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Dialects  
Shtokavian  

Where They Speak
France  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania  

How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00  
5
13,000,000.00  
28

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
79  
33

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
15.00 million  
99+
89.00 million  
18

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
89.00 %  
1

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
5.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
1.25 million  
99+

Native Name
Svenska  
hrvatski  

Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska  
Hrvatski  

French Name
suédois  
croate  

German Name
Schwedisch  
Kroatisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]  

Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes  
Croats  

History

Origin
13th Century  
9th century  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
-  

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Swedish  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Swedish  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian  

Language Position
89  
99+
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")  
Croatian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
sv  
hr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
swe  
hrv  

ISO 639 2/B
swe  
hrv  

ISO 639 3
swe  
hrv  

ISO 639 6
swe  
hrv  

Glottocode
swed1254  
croa1245  

Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw  
part of 53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Swedish and Croatian Language History

Comparison of Swedish vs Croatian language history gives us differences between origin of Swedish and Croatian language. History of Swedish language states that this language originated in 13th Century whereas history of Croatian language states that this language originated in 9th century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Swedish and Croatian Language History.

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Swedish 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 Swedish and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swedish and Croatian language. Swedish word for "Hello" is hej or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Swedish Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Swedish vs Croatian Difficulty

The Swedish vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swedish 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 Swedish and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swedish and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swedish is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.

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