1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
New Zealand
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
1.6 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Speaking Continents
Europe
Australia, Oceania
1.8 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.9 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Māori Language Commission
1.10 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.
- "E korao no New Zealand" was the first printed Maori book in 1815.
- The first newspaper in the Maori language was published in year 1842.
1.11 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Tahitian Language
1.12 Derived From
Roman Languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.1.1 How Many Consonants
3.3 Scripts
3.4 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Hard to Learn
3.5.1 Language Levels
3.6.1 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
E pēhea ana koe ?
4.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Night pai
4.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
pai ahiahi
4.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Afternoon pai
4.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Morning pai
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Aroha ahau ki a koe
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
5.1.1 Where They Speak
5.1.3 How Many People Speak
6.4 Dialect 2
Żejtun
Western North Island Maori
6.4.1 Where They Speak
6.4.2 How Many People Speak
7.8 Dialect 3
Not Present
Eastern North Island Maori
7.8.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
New Zealand
7.8.2 How Many People Speak
7.9 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million0.18 million
0.13
1200
8.2 Speaking Population
8.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million0.18 million
0.13
873
8.3.1 Second Language Speakers
8.3.2 Native Name
8.3.3 Alternative Names
8.3.4 French Name
8.3.5 German Name
8.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
8.5 Ethnicity
9 History
9.1 Origin
9.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
9.2.1 Subgroup
9.2.2 Branch
North Abric
Not Available
9.3 Language Forms
9.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
9.3.2 Standard Forms
9.3.3 Language Position
9.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Not Available
9.4 Scope
10 Code
10.1 ISO 639 1
10.2 ISO 639 2
10.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
10.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
10.3 ISO 639 3
10.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Glottocode
10.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
10.7 Types of Language
10.7.1 Language Type
10.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
10.7.3 Language Morphological Typology