Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
European Union, Malta
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
- 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Not Available
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Ħello
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Grazzi
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Kif int?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Молим (Molim)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Skużani!
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Ċaw
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Qormi
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Malta
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Serbia
Malta
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Not Present
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Malti
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Malti
French Name
serbe
maltais
German Name
Serbisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Not Available
Origin
11th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Abric
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Serbian
Maltese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
serb1264
malt1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
12-AAC-c
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Serbian 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 Serbian and Maltese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Serbian and Maltese language. Serbian word for "Hello" is Здраво (Zdravo) or Maltese word for "Thank You" is Grazzi. Find more of such common Serbian Greetings and Maltese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Serbian vs Maltese Difficulty
The Serbian vs Maltese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Serbian 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 Serbian and Maltese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Serbian and Maltese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Serbian is 44 weeks while to learn Maltese time required is 30 weeks.