1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
European Union, Ireland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Ireland
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Foras na Gaeilge
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.
- In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Not Available
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
Left-To-Right, 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
Grazzi
Go raibh maith agat
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Oíche mhaith
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Tráthnóna maith duit
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Tráthnóna maith duit
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Dia dhuit ar maidin
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
le do thoil
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Is breá liom thú
3.12 Excuse Me
Skużi!
Gabh mo leithscéal
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 million1.79 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million0.14 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Malti
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malti
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Maltese
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Irish Sign Language
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
Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology