1 Countries
2.2 Countries
European Union, Malta
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
2.4 Total No. Of Countries
2.11 National Language
Malta
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
2.13 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
2.15 Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
2.16 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
France, Germany, Indonesia
3.3 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
3.4 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.
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
3.5 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
German and English Languages
3.6 Derived From
Roman Languages
Not Available
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
4.4 Phonology
4.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.4.3 How Many Consonants
4.8 Scripts
4.9 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.10 Hard to Learn
4.10.1 Language Levels
4.10.3 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
7.2 Thank You
7.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
hoe gaat het met je?
7.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
goede Nacht
7.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
goedenavond
7.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
goedemiddag
7.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
goedemorgen
7.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
alsjeblieft
7.9 Sorry
7.10 Bye
7.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ik hou van jou
7.12 Excuse Me
8 Dialects
8.1 Dialect 1
8.1.1 Where They Speak
8.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA590,000.00
1.5
960000000
8.3 Dialect 2
8.3.1 Where They Speak
Malta
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
8.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,000,000.00
700
80000000
8.5 Dialect 3
8.5.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Belgium, Netherlands
8.5.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,300,000.00
1400
96000000
8.7 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
10.4 Speaking Population
10.5 Native Speakers
0.52 million22.00 million
0.13
873
10.7.1 Second Language Speakers
11.3.4 Native Name
11.3.5 Alternative Names
Malti
Hollands, Nederlands
11.3.6 French Name
maltais
néerlandais; flamand
11.3.7 German Name
Maltesisch
Niederländisch
11.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
11.5 Ethnicity
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
12.2.2 Branch
12.3 Language Forms
12.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
12.3.2 Standard Forms
12.3.3 Language Position
13.7.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
13.8 Scope
14 Code
14.1 ISO 639 1
14.2 ISO 639 2
14.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
14.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
14.3 ISO 639 3
14.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
14.5 Glottocode
14.6 Linguasphere
14.7 Types of Language
14.7.1 Language Type
14.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
14.7.3 Language Morphological Typology