1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
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
Not Available
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Caucasian languages
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
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Ħello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Not available
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
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 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Malti
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
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
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Northwest Caucasian
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
Not Available
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology