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Croatian

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Countries

Countries

Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

93
0 46
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National Language

Austria
Somalia

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Middle East

Minority Language

Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Yemen

Regulated By

Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy

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.
  • Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
  • One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.

Similar To

Serbain and Bosnian
Afar and Oromo Language

Derived From

Church Slavonic
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2521
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

bok
Hello

Thank You

hvala
Waad ku mahadsan tahay

How Are You?

kako si
Sidee tahay ?

Good Night

laku noć
Habeenka Good

Good Evening

dobra večer
Evening Good

Good Afternoon

dobar dan
galab wanaagsan

Good Morning

dobro jutro
Subax wanaagsan

Please

molim
Fadlan

Sorry

Oprostite
sorry

Bye

Doviđenja
caraysiiyo

I Love You

Volim te
Waan ku jeclahay

Excuse Me

Ispričavam se
iga raali ahow

Dialects

Dialect 1

Chakavian
Northern Somali

Where They Speak

Croatia
Gabon, Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

660,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Chakavian
Benaadir

Where They Speak

Croatia
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

How Many People Speak

5,500,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Shtokavian
Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

13,000,000.0021.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

793
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

89.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

89.00 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

5.60 million8.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

1.25 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

hrvatski
af Soomaali

Alternative Names

Hrvatski
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga

French Name

croate
somali

German Name

Kroatisch
Somali

Pronunciation

[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
[afsoomaali]

Ethnicity

Croats
Somalis

History

Origin

9th century
19th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

-
Cushitic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Somali

Language Position

2383
1 120
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Signed Forms

Croatian Sign Language
Somali Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

hr
so

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

hrv
som

ISO 639 2/B

hrv
som

ISO 639 3

hrv
som

ISO 639 6

hrv
som

Glottocode

croa1245
soma1255

Linguasphere

part of 53-AAA-g
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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Croatian and Somali Alphabets

Croatian and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Croatian and Somali. In Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Croatian and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Croatian and Somali 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 Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Croatian and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Croatian and Somali 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 Somali dialects. Various dialects of Croatian and Somali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Croatian are spoken in different Croatian Speaking Countries whereas Somali Dialects are spoken in different Somali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Croatian vs Somali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Croatian dialects include: Chakavian, Chakavian. Somali dialects include: Northern Somali , Benaadir. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Croatian and Somali Speaking population

Croatian and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Croatian and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Croatian and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 %. 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 Somali on Croatian vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Croatian and Somali Language Codes

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