1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Israel
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
1.5 Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Poland
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Arabic and Aramaic languages
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Aramaic 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
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
בבקשה (bevekshah)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
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
Not Present
Yemenite Hebrew
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 million9.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million4.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Malti
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
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
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic