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Croatian

Maltese
Maltese



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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

92
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Malta

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
National Council for the Maltese Language

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.
  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3030
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2524
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Ħello

Thank You

hvala
Grazzi

How Are You?

kako si
Kif int?

Good Night

laku noć
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

dobra večer
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

dobro jutro
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

molim
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

Oprostite
Skużani!

Bye

Doviđenja
Ċaw

I Love You

Volim te
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Qormi

Where They Speak

Croatia
Malta

How Many People Speak

660,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Croatia
Malta

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Not Present

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
-

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

792
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
Malti

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Malti

French Name

croate
maltais

German Name

Kroatisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Croats
Maltese

History

Origin

9th century
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Maltese

Language Position

2325
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
mlt

ISO 639 3

hrv
mlt

ISO 639 6

hrv
mlt

Glottocode

croa1245
malt1254

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Croatian and Maltese Alphabets

Croatian and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Maltese. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Croatian and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Maltese languages. The Croatian phonology consist Croatian vowels and Croatian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Croatian greetings vs Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Maltese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Croatian and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Maltese Speaking population

Croatian and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Croatian and Maltese on Croatian vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Maltese Language Codes

Croatian and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Croatian and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.