Countries
European Union, Malta
  
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
National Language
Malta
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Farsi Language
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
Silaw
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
Sipas
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
Tu çawa yî?
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Şev xweş
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Evare baş
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Nee-wa-rowt bash
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Bayanit bash
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Bê zehmet
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
Bibûre
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
Be xêr çî
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Ez te hez dikem
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
Bê zehmet
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Northern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
10
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Central Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Southern Kurdish
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Eastern Iraq
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,000,000.00
  
12
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
21.00 million
  
36
Native Name
Malti
  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Not Available
  
French Name
maltais
  
kurde
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Kurdisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Kurds
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
16th century CE
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Kurdish
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
ku
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
kur
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
kur
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
kur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
kurd1259
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
58-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Maltese and Kurdish Speaking population
Maltese and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maltese and Kurdish on Maltese vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Kurdish Language Codes
Maltese and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.