Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Malta
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Good Morning
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Please
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Sorry
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Bye
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
1,200.00 million
  
1
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
Malti
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Not Available
  
French Name
maltais
  
anglais
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Standard English
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic