Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Malta
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Bulgaria
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
Malti
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
maltais
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Maltese and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Bulgarian language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Bulgarian Difficulty
The Maltese vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.