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About Maltese Language



Countries
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Countries
European Union, Malta 0

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Malta 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Europe 0

Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America 0

Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language 0

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.
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Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects 0

Derived From
Roman Languages 0

Alphabets
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Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
30 12

Phonology
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How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
24 14

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
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Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks 9

Greetings
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Hello
Ħello 0

Thank You
Grazzi 0

How Are You?
Kif int? 0

Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba 0

Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba 0

Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb 0

Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba 0

Please
Jekk jogħġbok 0

Sorry
Skużani! 0

Bye
Ċaw 0

I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna 0

Excuse Me
Skużi! 0

Dialects
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Dialect 1
Qormi 0

Where They Speak
Malta 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Żejtun 0

Where They Speak
Malta 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Not Present 0

Where They Speak
Not Available 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
2 2

How Many People Speak
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million 90

Speaking Population
Not Available 0

Native Speakers
0.52 million 84

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Malti 0

Alternative Names
Malti 0

French Name
maltais 0

German Name
Maltesisch 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Maltese 0

History
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Origin
c. 1470 0

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family 0

Subgroup
Semitic 0

Branch
North Abric 0

Language Forms
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Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Maltese 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language 0

Scope
Individual 0

Code
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ISO 639 1
mt 0

ISO 639 2
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ISO 639 2/T
mlt 0

ISO 639 2/B
mlt 0

ISO 639 3
mlt 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
malt1254 0

Linguasphere
12-AAC-c 0

Types of Language
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Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb 0

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic 0

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Know Alphabets in Maltese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Maltese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Maltese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Maltese. Maltese phonology gives Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. There are 6 vowels and 24 consonants in Maltese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Maltese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Maltese language is given in detail in this section.

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All Maltese countries

Want to explore all Maltese countries? About Maltese language serves you with all Maltese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Maltese as official language are called as Maltese countries.

  • Countries that use Maltese as their National Language are: Malta.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Maltese as second language are: Maltese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Maltese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Maltese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Maltese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Maltese language.Learn Maltese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Ħello
  • Thank you: Grazzi
  • Good Morning: L-għodwa t-tajba
  • Good Evening: Il-Lejla it-tajba
  • Good Afternoon: Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

All Maltese Language Codes

Get to know all Maltese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Maltese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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