1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malta
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks
Rank: 9 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ħello
3.2 Thank You
Grazzi
3.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
3.9 Sorry
Skużani!
3.10 Bye
Ċaw
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
3.12 Excuse Me
Skużi!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Qormi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Malta
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Żejtun
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Malta
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Present
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
Rank: 90 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million
Rank: 84 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Malti
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malti
5.3.4 French Name
maltais
5.3.5 German Name
Maltesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Maltese
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 1470
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
6.2.2 Branch
North Abric
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Maltese
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
mt
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
mlt
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
mlt
7.3 ISO 639 3
mlt
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
malt1254
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic