Countries
European Union, Malta
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
National Language
Malta
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Amharic and Hebrew
Derived From
Roman Languages
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
How Are You?
Kif int?
كيف حالك؟
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
تصبح على خير
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
مساء الخير
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
مساء الخير
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
صباح الخير
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
من فضلك
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
أحبك
Where They Speak
Malta
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Sudanese
Where They Speak
Malta
Sudan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Present
Levantine
Where They Speak
Not Available
Cyprus, Levant
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Malti
(al arabiya) العربية
Alternative Names
Malti
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
French Name
maltais
arabe
German Name
Maltesisch
Arabisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Branch
North Abric
North Arabic
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Modern Standard Arabic
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Arabic
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
arab1395
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
12-AAC
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Maltese and Arabic 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 Arabic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Arabic language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Arabic word for "Thank You" is شكرا. Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Arabic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Arabic Difficulty
The Maltese vs Arabic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Arabic 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 Arabic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Arabic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Arabic time required is 88 weeks.