Countries
Myanmar
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Myanmar
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Mon
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  
- 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
Thai Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Pali Language
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tangut
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Arakanese
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Myanmar
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Intha
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Burma
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
43.00 million
  
30
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million
  
23
Not Available
  
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
  
Malti
  
French Name
birman
  
maltais
  
German Name
Birmanisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bamar people
  
Maltese
  
Origin
1113 AD
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
my
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mya
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
bur
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
mya
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sout3159
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Burmese and Maltese 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 Burmese and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Burmese and Maltese language. Burmese word for "Hello" is မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar) or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Burmese Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Burmese vs Maltese Difficulty
The Burmese vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Burmese Alphabets and Maltese 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 Burmese and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Burmese and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Burmese is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.