Countries
Countries
European Union, Malta
India
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
1
14
National Language
Malta
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Marathi
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Kokani-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
30
12
52
31
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
16
13
How Many Consonants
24
14
36
26
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
3
2
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks
9
4 weeks
2
Greetings
Hello
Ħello
Namaskar
Thank You
Grazzi
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Kif int?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Not Available
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Chike
Sorry
Skużani!
Maf kor
Bye
Ċaw
Adeus
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Skużi!
upkar korxi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qormi
Antruz
Where They Speak
Malta
Goa
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Not present
Where They Speak
Malta
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Present
Not present
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
2
2
1
1
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
99+
7.40 million
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
0.11 %
99+
Native Speakers
0.52 million
99+
7.40 million
99+
Native Name
Malti
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Malti
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
maltais
konkani
German Name
Maltesisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
Not Available
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Maltese
Konkanis
History
Origin
c. 1470
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Abric
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Kokani
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
mt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
kok
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
kok
ISO 639 3
mlt
kok
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
goan1235
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
