Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Malta
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
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
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
günaydın
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Malti
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
maltais
  
turc
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Turkish
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Turkic
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Maltese and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Turkish language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Turkish Difficulty
The Maltese vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.