1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Dutch Language
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
goeie more
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Żejtun
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Present
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology