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Maltese
Maltese

Serbian
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

Interesting Facts

  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  • 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.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3030
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2425
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Grazzi
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Kif int?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

Skużani!
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

Ċaw
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Malta
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

520,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Malta
Serbia

How Many People Speak

500,000.0012,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Torlakian

Where They Speak

-
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

23
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Malti
Montenegrin

French Name

maltais
serbe

German Name

Maltesisch
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Serbs

History

Origin

c. 1470
11th Century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
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Branch

North Abric
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese
Standard Serbian

Language Position

2544
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
srp

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
srp

ISO 639 3

mlt
srp

ISO 639 6

mlt
srp

Glottocode

malt1254
serb1264

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Maltese and Serbian Alphabets

Maltese and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Serbian. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Maltese and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Serbian languages. The Maltese phonology consist Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maltese greetings vs Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maltese and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Serbian Speaking population

Maltese and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Maltese and Serbian on Maltese vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Serbian Language Codes

Maltese and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.