Countries
European Union, Malta
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Malta
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Ħello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Grazzi
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Kif int?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Skużani!
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Ċaw
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Malta
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Malta
Olonets
Dialect 3
Not Present
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Not Available
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Malti
Русский
Alternative Names
Malti
Russki
French Name
maltais
russe
German Name
Maltesisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Russians
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
North Abric
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic
Maltese and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Russian language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Russian Difficulty
The Maltese vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.