Countries
Indonesia
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- 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
Malay language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Malti
  
French Name
indonésien
  
maltais
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Maltese
  
Origin
7th Century
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
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
  
Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Maltese language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian 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 Indonesian and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.