Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Somalia
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
bok
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
kako si
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
Fadlan
  
molim
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Croatia
  
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
somali
  
croate
  
German Name
Somali
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Croats
  
Origin
19th century
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Somali 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 Somali and Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Somali and Croatian language. Somali word for "Hello" is Hello or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Somali Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Somali vs Croatian Difficulty
The Somali vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Somali 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 Somali and Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Somali and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Somali is 52 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.