Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Malta
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
آسف
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
Malti
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
maltais
  
arabe
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Arabs
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Semitic
  
Branch
North Abric
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Fusional, Synthetic