Countries
Macedonia
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian 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
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
жал (žal)
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Чао (Čao)
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Torlakian
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Debar
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Galičnik
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Macedonia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
Malti
  
French Name
macédonien
  
maltais
  
German Name
Makedonisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Macedonians
  
Maltese
  
Origin
2200 BC
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Southern
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Macedonian
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mk
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mkd
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
mac
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
mkd
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
mace1250
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
  
Synthetic
  
Macedonian 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 Macedonian and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Macedonian and Maltese language. Macedonian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Macedonian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Macedonian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Macedonian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Macedonian 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 Macedonian and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Macedonian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Macedonian is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.