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Countries

Countries
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
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Alphabets
30 12

Phonology

How Many Vowels
6 3

How Many Consonants
24 14

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
6 5

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks 10

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 67

Dialect 2
Żejtun

Where They Speak
Malta

How Many People Speak
500,000.00 70

Dialect 3
Not Present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
500,000.00 60

Total No. Of Dialects
2 2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
0.52 million 90

Speaking Population
0.02 % 61

Native Speakers
0.52 million 84

Second Language Speakers
0.50 million 63

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
25 23

Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
mt

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

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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 6 vowels and 24 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.

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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: Malta.

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: Maltese is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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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: Ħello
  • Thank you: Grazzi
  • Good Morning: L-għodwa t-tajba
  • Good Evening: Il-Lejla it-tajba
  • Good Afternoon: Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

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.

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