1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
European Union, Latvia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Latvian State Language Center
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.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Lithuanian Language
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Not Available
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?
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Ar labunakti
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Labvakar
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Labdien
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Es tevi mīlu
3.12 Excuse Me
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
Not Available
France, Latvia
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 million1.75 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million1.75 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Maltese
Latvians or Letts
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Latvian 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
Not Available
not Available
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