Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Malaysia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Thailand
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
- 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
Indonesian Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Tamil Language
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hai
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
terima kasih
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Apa khabar?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Selamat Petang
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Selamat pagi
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
sila
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
maaf
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Bengkulu
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00
  
25
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Pekal
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Musi
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00
  
11
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
175.00 million
  
10
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
77.00 million
  
12
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
98.00 million
  
8
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa melayu
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Malti
  
French Name
malais
  
maltais
  
German Name
Malaiisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Maltese
  
Origin
c. 683 AD
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ms
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
msa
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
may
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
zsm
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1306
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Malaysian and Maltese language. Malaysian word for "Hello" is Hai or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Malaysian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Malaysian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Malaysian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Malaysian 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 Malaysian and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Malaysian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Malaysian is 36 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.