Countries
European Union, Malta
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Malta
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
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.
  
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Roman Languages
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Ħello
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Grazzi
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Kif int?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
Skużani!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
Ċaw
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Skużi!
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Qormi
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Żejtun
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Malta
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Not Present
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
  
99+
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.52 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Malti
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Malti
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
maltais
  
népalais
  
German Name
Maltesisch
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Maltese
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
c. 1470
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
North Abric
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Maltese
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
mt
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
mlt
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
malt1254
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Maltese and Nepali Speaking population
Maltese and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Maltese vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Maltese and Nepali Language Codes
Maltese and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.