Countries
Belarus, Poland
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Belarus, Gambia
Malta
Second Language
Poland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish 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
Russian and Ukrainian
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3924
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
dobry dzień
Ħello
Thank You
Dziakuj
Grazzi
How Are You?
Jak vy ?
Kif int?
Good Night
Dabranač
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Dobry viečar
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
dobry dzień
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Dobraj ranicy
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Kali laska
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Vybačajcie
Skużani!
Bye
da pabačennia
Ċaw
I Love You
JA liubliu ciabie
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Vybačajcie
Skużi!
Dialect 1
North-Eastern Belarusian
Qormi
Where They Speak
North-East Belarus
Malta
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
South-Western Belarusian
Żejtun
Where They Speak
South-West Belarus
Malta
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Middle Belarusian
Not Present
Where They Speak
Middle Belarus
-
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.63 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.89 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Malti
Alternative Names
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
Malti
French Name
biélorusse
maltais
German Name
Weißrussisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Belarusians
Maltese
Origin
18th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Semitic
Branch
Eastern
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Belarusian
Maltese
Language Position
7925
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Belarusian Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
be
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bel
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
bel
mlt
ISO 639 3
bel
mlt
ISO 639 6
bel
mlt
Glottocode
bela1254
malt1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic