Countries
European Union, Malta
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Malta
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
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.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
Malti
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
maltais
  
slovène
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
972-1093
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Slovene
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Maltese and Slovene Speaking population
Maltese and Slovene speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Slovene languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Slovene Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovene 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 Slovene on Maltese vs Slovene where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Slovene Language Codes
Maltese and Slovene language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Slovene Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.