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Countries

European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 13 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Malta

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language

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.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 12 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 14 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks

Rank: 10 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Ħello

Thank You

Grazzi

How Are You?

Kif int?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

Skużani!

Bye

Ċaw

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi

Where They Speak

Malta

How Many People Speak

520,000.00

Rank: 67 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Żejtun

Where They Speak

Malta

How Many People Speak

500,000.00

Rank: 70 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Not Present

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

500,000.00

Rank: 60 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million

Rank: 90 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.02 %

Rank: 61 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

0.52 million

Rank: 84 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million

Rank: 63 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

Malti

Alternative Names

Malti

French Name

maltais

German Name

Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Maltese

History

Origin

c. 1470

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Semitic

Branch

North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese

Language Position

Rank: 23 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt

ISO 639 2/B

mlt

ISO 639 3

mlt

ISO 639 6

mlt

Glottocode

malt1254

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic

Know Alphabets in Maltese

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Maltese Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Maltese Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Maltese. Maltese phonology gives Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. There are vowels and consonants in Maltese language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Maltese is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Maltese language is given in detail in this section.

All Maltese countries

Want to explore all Maltese countries? About Maltese language serves you with all Maltese Speaking Countries. Countries that use Maltese as official language are called as Maltese countries.

Countries that use Maltese as their National Language are: .

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

Countries that use Maltese as second language are: .

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Learn Maltese greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Maltese Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Maltese language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Maltese language.Learn Maltese greetings that can be used in formal situations:

Hello:
Thank you:
Good Morning:
Good Evening:
Good Afternoon:

All Maltese Language Codes

Get to know all Maltese language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Maltese Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.