1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
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
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Kurdish and Persian
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
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
Latin
Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
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
jawáin shap
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
jawáin begáh
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
jawáin sawáh
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Mihrabani kan
3.9 Sorry
Skużani!
bebaksh / bebagsh
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Tu mana doost biyeh
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Malta
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Not Present
Southern Balochi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.52 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million7.60 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
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
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
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
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology