Countries
Countries
European Union, Malta
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
6
9
National Language
Malta
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
Roman Languages
Latin
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Romanian.jpg#200
Alphabets
30
12
31
13
Phonology
How Many Vowels
6
3
7
4
How Many Consonants
24
14
20
10
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
6
5
6
5
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks
9
24 weeks
6
Greetings
Hello
Ħello
alo
Thank You
Grazzi
multumesc
How Are You?
Kif int?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
noapte Buna
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
buna Ziua
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
bună Dimineața
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Vă Rog
Sorry
Skużani!
scuze
Bye
Ċaw
La revedere
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Scuza-Ma
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qormi
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Malta
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
Not Available
250,000.00
38
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Malta
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
Not Available
5,000.00
99+
Dialect 3
Not Present
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
1,400.00
37
Total No. Of Dialects
2
2
10
10
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million
99+
28.00 million
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
0.37 %
35
Native Speakers
0.52 million
99+
24.00 million
33
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
4.00 million
30
Native Name
Malti
Română
Alternative Names
Malti
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
maltais
roumain; moldave
German Name
Maltesisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Romanians
History
Origin
c. 1470
1521
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Abric
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Romanian
Language Position
Not Available
36
28
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
mt
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
ron
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
rum
ISO 639 3
mlt
ron
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
roma1327
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic
