Countries
European Union, Malta
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Malta
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
goeie more
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
jammer
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
Malti
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
maltais
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic
  
Maltese and Afrikaans Speaking population
Maltese and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans 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 Maltese and Afrikaans on Maltese vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Afrikaans Language Codes
Maltese and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.