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Countries

Countries

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Russia
Malta

Second Language

Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Council for the Maltese Language

Interesting Facts

  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  • 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

Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3330
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2124
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Ħello

Thank You

спасибо(spasibo)
Grazzi

How Are You?

Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Kif int?

Good Night

Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

Извините(Izvinite)
Skużani!

Bye

до свидания(do svidaniya)
Ċaw

I Love You

Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

извините(izvinite)
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Doukhobor Russian
Qormi

Where They Speak

Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Malta

How Many People Speak

30,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Olonets
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Olonets
Malta

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Novgorod
Not Present

Where They Speak

Novgorod
-

How Many People Speak

154,000,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

132
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

276.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

2.33 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

166.00 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

110.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Русский
Malti

Alternative Names

Russki
Malti

French Name

russe
maltais

German Name

Russisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Russians
Maltese

History

Origin

1000 AD
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Slavic
Semitic

Branch

Eastern
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old East Slavic
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Russian
Maltese

Language Position

725
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Russian
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ru
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

rus
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

rus
mlt

ISO 639 3

rus
mlt

ISO 639 6

rus
mlt

Glottocode

russ1263
malt1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-ea
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic

Russian and Maltese Alphabets

Russian and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Russian and Maltese. In Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Russian and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Russian and Maltese languages. The Russian phonology consist Russian vowels and Russian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Russian greetings vs Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Russian and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Russian and Maltese 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 Russian and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Russian and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Russian are spoken in different Russian Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Russian vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian, Olonets. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Russian and Maltese Speaking population

Russian and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. 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 Russian and Maltese on Russian vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Russian and Maltese Language Codes

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