1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Malta
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit 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
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
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Kif int?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
Jekk jogħġbok
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
Skużani!
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Skużi!
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
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
Not Available
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.52 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Malti
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
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
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Sinhalese Prakrit
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
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