Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Germany
  
Malta
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Danke
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
bitte
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Malti
  
French Name
allemand
  
maltais
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
Maltese
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Western
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic
  
German and Maltese Speaking population
German and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of German and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available. 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 German and Maltese on German vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
German and Maltese Language Codes
German and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.