1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Malta
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Armenian
1.10 Derived From
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
Ħello
γεια σας (geia sas)
3.2 Thank You
Grazzi
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
3.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
3.9 Sorry
Skużani!
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
3.12 Excuse Me
Skużi!
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million13.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malti
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
5.3.4 French Name
maltais
grec moderne (après 1453)
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Maltese
Greeks or Hellenes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
North Abric
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
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
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic