About Malay Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Malay is the official language of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is also spoken unofficially in many parts of Thailand. You will be surprised to know that the native speakers of this language exceed 290 million. There are around 260 million people in Indonesia alone who speak Malay. Standard Malay has many different names. It is also known as Court Malay. Speakers find it easy to distinguish this language from others. Malay is written in the Latin script but Arabic script is also a huge part of it. However, this Latin script is more common among people of Malaysia and Brunei. Since the 17th century, this language is inspired by Dutch and Britain. Jawi script was also replaced by Rumi script that is now officially used for many purposes. Malay features many non-native consonants that are borrowed from English and Arabic words.
About Maltese Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Maltese is a popular Semitic language and is spoken by the natives in Maltese people. It is the official language of Malta and the European Union. The writing system features Maltese and Latin. Maltese is spoken by over 520,000 speakers. This language belongs to the Afroasiatic and Semitic families. It follows the peripheral dialect of Arabic that is also spoken in the Mediterranean between Tunis and Sicily. There are a lot of Latin alphabets used in this language. Even though Maltese is used as the official language English is preferred for education purposes. Traditionally a lot of spelling systems were used but the current Maltese alphabets were introduced in 1924. H is usually used at the end of every word but the final consonants appear at the beginning of words.
