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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Malta

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

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

Interesting Facts

  • 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.
  • 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

Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

-
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3030
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2524
9 60
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Scripts

Cyrillic, Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Здраво (Zdravo)
Ħello

Thank You

Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Grazzi

How Are You?

Како си? (Kako si?)
Kif int?

Good Night

Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

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

Good Afternoon

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

Good Morning

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

Please

Молим (Molim)
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Skużani!

Bye

Довиђења (Doviđenja)
Ċaw

I Love You

Волим те (Volim te)
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

Извините (Izvinite)
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Prizren-Timok
Qormi

Where They Speak

Southeastern Serbia
Malta

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Smederevo–Vršac
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Serbia
Malta

How Many People Speak

12,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Torlakian
Not Present

Where They Speak

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

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

32
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

8.70 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

12.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Malti

Alternative Names

Montenegrin
Malti

French Name

serbe
maltais

German Name

Serbisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[sr̩̂pskiː]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Serbs
Maltese

History

Origin

11th Century
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Serbian
Maltese

Language Position

4425
1 120
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Signed Forms

Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sr
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

srp
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

srp
mlt

ISO 639 3

srp
mlt

ISO 639 6

srp
mlt

Glottocode

serb1264
malt1254

Linguasphere

53-AAA-g
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Serbian and Maltese Alphabets

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

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

Serbian and Maltese Speaking population

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

Serbian and Maltese Language Codes

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