Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
Madagascar
  
National Language
Austria
  
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
  
Similar To
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malagasy-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
bok
  
Salama!
  
Thank You
hvala
  
Misaotra
  
How Are You?
kako si
  
Manao ahoana!
  
Good Night
laku noć
  
Alina tsara
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
Manao ahoana e
  
Good Afternoon
dobar dan
  
Manao ahoana e
  
Good Morning
dobro jutro
  
Maraina tsara
  
Please
molim
  
azafady
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Miala tsiny
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
Veloma!
  
I Love You
Volim te
  
Tiako ianao.
  
Excuse Me
Ispričavam se
  
Azafady
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Eastern Malagasy
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Merina
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
17
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Western Malagasy
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Sakalava
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
24
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Not Available
  
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
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
18.00 million
  
38
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
Fiteny Malagasy
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Malagasy Sign Language
  
French Name
croate
  
malgache
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Malagassi-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
Malagasy people
  
Origin
9th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Austronesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indonesian
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
standard Malagasy
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
mg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
mlg
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
mala1537
  
Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Verb-Object-Subject
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Croatian and Malagasy 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 Croatian and Malagasy greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Croatian and Malagasy language. Croatian word for "Hello" is bok or Malagasy word for "Thank You" is Misaotra. Find more of such common Croatian Greetings and Malagasy Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Croatian vs Malagasy Difficulty
The Croatian vs Malagasy difficulty level basically depends on the number of Croatian Alphabets and Malagasy 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 Croatian and Malagasy are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Croatian and Malagasy, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Croatian is 44 weeks while to learn Malagasy time required is Not Available.