Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Hong Kong, Macau
  
National Language
Malta
  
China, Guangdong
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Hawaii
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
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.
  
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
您好
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
谢谢
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
你好吗?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
晚安
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
晚上好
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
下午好
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
早上好
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
请
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
遗憾
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
再见
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
我爱你
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
原谅我
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Guangzhou
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
outside mainland China
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Xiguan
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Hong Kong
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Hong Kong
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Hong Kong
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
27
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
52.00 million
  
21
Native Name
Malti
  
Kwang Tung Wa
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
French Name
maltais
  
Not Available
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Not Available
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
17th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Standard Cantonese
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
cant1236
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Maltese and Cantonese Speaking population
Maltese and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Maltese vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Cantonese Language Codes
Maltese and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.