Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
European Union, Malta
  
National Language
Spain
  
Malta
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
National Council for the Maltese Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  
Similar To
French Language
  
Western Arabic Dialects
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Roman Languages
  
Alphabets in
Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
Ħello
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
Grazzi
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
Kif int?
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
Il-Lejla it-tajba
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
L-għodwa t-tajba
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Jekk jogħġbok
  
Sorry
triste
  
Skużani!
  
Bye
adiós
  
Ċaw
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
Inħobbok ħafna
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
Skużi!
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Qormi
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Żejtun
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Malta
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Not Present
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
0.52 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
0.52 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
Malti
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Malti
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
maltais
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Maltesisch
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Maltese
  
Origin
210 BC
  
c. 1470
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Abric
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Maltese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Maltese Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
mt
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
mlt
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
malt1254
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
12-AAC-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Synthetic