Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Malta
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
maaf
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
Malti
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
maltais
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Indonesian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
indo1316
  
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
  
Maltese and Indonesian 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 Indonesian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Indonesian language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Indonesian word for "Thank You" is Terima kasih. Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Indonesian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Indonesian Difficulty
The Maltese vs Indonesian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Indonesian 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 Indonesian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Indonesian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Indonesian time required is 36 weeks.