Countries
European Union, Latvia
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Latvia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
  
- 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
Lithuanian Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Sveiki
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Paldies
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Ar labunakti
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Labvakar
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Labdien
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Labrīt
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
lūdzu
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Piedodiet!
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Livonian
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Malta
  
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Latvia
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
High Latvian
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.75 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.75 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
latviešu valoda
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Lettish
  
Malti
  
French Name
letton
  
maltais
  
German Name
Lettisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
  
Maltese
  
Origin
1530
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Baltic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Latvian
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
lv
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
lav
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
lav
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
lav
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
latv1249
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Latvian 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 Latvian and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Maltese language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Latvian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian 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 Latvian and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.