Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Russia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Malti
  
French Name
russe
  
maltais
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Maltese
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
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
  
Russian 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 Russian and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Maltese language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Russian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.