Countries
Thailand
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Thailand
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
  
- 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
Lao Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Khmer Language
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Thai-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Thai
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
โปรด (Pord)
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Isan
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Isan
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
10
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Northern Thai
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Northern Thailand
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
13
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Southern Thai
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
20.00 million
  
37
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million
  
15
Not Available
  
Native Name
ภาษาไทย
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
  
Malti
  
French Name
thaï
  
maltais
  
German Name
Thailändisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
  
Maltese
  
Origin
1283 CE
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Tai-Kadai Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Tai
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Thai
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Thai
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Thai Sign Language
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
th
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tha
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
tha
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
tha
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
thai1261
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
47-AAA-b
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Synthetic
  
Thai and Maltese Speaking population
Thai and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Thai and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Thai and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Thai language is 0.85 % 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 Thai and Maltese on Thai vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Thai and Maltese Language Codes
Thai and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Thai and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.