Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
Palun
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Malta
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Malti
  
French Name
estonien
  
maltais
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Maltese
  
Origin
13th century
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Estonian and Maltese Speaking population
Estonian and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian 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 Estonian and Maltese on Estonian vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Maltese Language Codes
Estonian and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.