Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
- 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
Serbo-Croatian
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Hvala
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Kako se imate?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Lahko noč
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Dober večer
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Dober dan
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Dobro jutro
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
Prosim
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Nasvidenje
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Ljubim te
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Oprostite
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Resian
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Malta
  
Dialect 3
Styrian
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Slovenia
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
2.50 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
2.50 million
  
99+
0.52 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not available
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
Malti
  
French Name
slovène
  
maltais
  
German Name
Slowenisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Slovenes
  
Maltese
  
Origin
972-1093
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Slovene
  
Maltese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sl
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
slv
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
slv
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
slv
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
slov1268
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-f
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Synthetic
  
Slovene and Maltese Speaking population
Slovene and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Slovene and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Slovene and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Slovene language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Slovene and Maltese on Slovene vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Slovene and Maltese Language Codes
Slovene and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Slovene and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.