Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Malta
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
- 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
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
bok
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
molim
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
Malti
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
maltais
  
croate
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Maltese and Croatian Speaking population
Maltese and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Maltese and Croatian on Maltese vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Croatian Language Codes
Maltese and Croatian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Croatian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.