Countries
European Union, Poland
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Poland
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Polish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
cześć
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
dziękuję
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
dobranoc
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
proszę
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Przepraszam
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
do widzenia
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
kocham Cię
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
przepraszam
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Kashubian
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
108,000.00
  
99+
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Masovian
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Poland
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Silesian
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million
  
31
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
40.00 million
  
24
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
Polski
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
  
Malti
  
French Name
polonais
  
maltais
  
German Name
Polnisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Poles
  
Maltese
  
Origin
1270
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Polish
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
pl
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
pol
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
pol
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
pol
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
pols
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
poli1260
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
Polish and Maltese 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 Polish and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Polish and Maltese language. Polish word for "Hello" is cześć or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Polish Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Polish vs Maltese Difficulty
The Polish vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Polish Alphabets and Maltese 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 Polish and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Polish and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Polish is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.