Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Malta
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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.
  
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
sila
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
maaf
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Malti
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Not Available
  
French Name
maltais
  
malais
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Maltese and Malaysian 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 Malaysian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Malaysian language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Malaysian word for "Thank You" is terima kasih. Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Malaysian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Malaysian Difficulty
The Maltese vs Malaysian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Malaysian 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 Malaysian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Malaysian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Malaysian time required is 36 weeks.