Countries
European Union, Malta
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2422
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ħello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Grazzi
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Kif int?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
будь ласк
Sorry
Skużani!
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Ċaw
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Podillian
Where They Speak
Malta
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
520,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Volynian
Where They Speak
Malta
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
500,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Steppe
Where They Speak
-
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
500,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Malti
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
maltais
ukrainien
German Name
Maltesisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Ukrainians
Origin
c. 1470
1561
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
North Abric
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2526
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
ukr
ISO 639 3
mlt
ukr
ISO 639 6
mlt
ukr
Glottocode
malt1254
ukra1253
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic