Countries
European Union, Malta
  
European Union, Finland
  
National Language
Malta
  
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Estonia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Moi
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Kiitos
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
hyvää yötä
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Hyvää iltaa
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Hyvää huomenta
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
haluta
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Anteeksi
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Heippa
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Anteeksi
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Colloquial Finnish
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Finland
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Rauma
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Finland, Rauma
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Meänkieli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Finland, Sweden
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
5.40 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
0.01 million
  
39
Native Name
Malti
  
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Suomi
  
French Name
maltais
  
finnois
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Finnisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈsuomi]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
ethnic Finns
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
1543
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Uralic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Finno-Ugric
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Finnic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Finnic language
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
standard Finnish
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Signed Finnish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
fi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
fin
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
fin
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
fin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
finn1318
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Maltese and Finnish Speaking population
Maltese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish 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 Maltese and Finnish on Maltese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Finnish Language Codes
Maltese and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.