Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Malta
  
Ukraine
  
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
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
Malti
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Not Available
  
French Name
maltais
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
1561
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Maltese and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Ukrainian language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Ukrainian word for "Thank You" is Дякую (Dyakuyu). Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Ukrainian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Ukrainian Difficulty
The Maltese vs Ukrainian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Ukrainian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Ukrainian time required is 44 weeks.