Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Malta
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
91.00 million
  
16
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
Malti
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
maltais
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Maltese and Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Maltese and Vietnamese language. Maltese word for "Hello" is Ħello or Vietnamese word for "Thank You" is Cam on. Find more of such common Maltese Greetings and Vietnamese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Maltese vs Vietnamese Difficulty
The Maltese vs Vietnamese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Maltese Alphabets and Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Maltese and Vietnamese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Maltese is 30 weeks while to learn Vietnamese time required is 44 weeks.