Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th 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
Macedonian language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Malta
  
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Malti
  
French Name
bulgare
  
maltais
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Maltese
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Southern
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Bulgarian and Maltese Speaking population
Bulgarian and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bulgarian and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Bulgarian and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bulgarian language is Not Available 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 Bulgarian and Maltese on Bulgarian vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Bulgarian and Maltese Language Codes
Bulgarian and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Bulgarian and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.