Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
European Union, Malta
  
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 in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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!
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Malti
  
French Name
croate
  
maltais
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Maltese
  
Origin
9th century
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
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 Not Available. 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.