Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Malta
  
Abkhazia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Not Available
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Abkhazia
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Caucasus
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
Malti
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
maltais
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Maltese and Abkhaz 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 Maltese and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Abkhaz language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Abkhaz Difficulty
The Maltese vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Abkhaz 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 Maltese and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.