Countries
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
  
- 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
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Malayalam-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
  
bok
  
Thank You
നന്ദി (nandi)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
  
molim
  
Sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
വിട (viṭa)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Judeo-Malayalam
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Israel, kerala
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Mappila
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Pandy Malayalam
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
France, kerala
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
38.00 million
  
33
89.00 million
  
18
Native Speakers
38.00 million
  
26
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
malayalam
  
croate
  
German Name
Malayalam
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Malayali
  
Croats
  
Origin
9th Century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Dravidian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early form
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Malayalam
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ml
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mal
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
mal
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
mal
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mala1464
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malayalam and Croatian language. Malayalam word for "Hello" is ഹലോ (halēā) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Malayalam Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malayalam vs Croatian Difficulty
The Malayalam vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malayalam 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 Malayalam and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malayalam and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malayalam is 44 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.