Countries
European Union, Malta
  
European Union, Lithuania
  
National Language
Malta
  
Lithuania
  
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
  
Poland
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
  
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Latvian
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Sveiki
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Ačiū
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Kaip sekasi?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Labanakt
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Labas vakaras
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Laba diena
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Labas rytas
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Prašom
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
atsiprašau
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Ate
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Aš myliu tave
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Atsiprašau
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Samogitian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Aukštaitian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Lithuania
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Curonian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Lithuania
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
3.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
3.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
Malti
  
lietuvių kalba
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
  
French Name
maltais
  
lituanien
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Litauisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Lithuanians
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
c. 1503
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Baltic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Lithuanian
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Lithuanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
lt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
lit
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
lit
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
lit
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
lith1251
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
54-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Maltese and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Lithuanian language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The Maltese vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.