1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Council for German Orthography
1.8 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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Albanian Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA820,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Maltese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed German
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
malt1254
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic