Cantonese and Maltese
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
European Union, Malta
National Language
China, Guangdong
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Hawaii
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
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Roman Languages
Alphabets in
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Maltese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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How Are You?
你好吗？
Kif int?
Good Night
晚安
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
晚上好
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
下午好
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
早上好
L-għodwa t-tajba
I Love You
我爱你
Inħobbok ħafna
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Qormi
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Malta
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Malta
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not Present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Malti
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Malti
French Name
cantonais
maltais
German Name
Kantonesisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Maltese
Origin
17th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Maltese
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Maltese Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
mt
ISO 639 3
No data available
mlt
Glottocode
cant1236
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
All Cantonese and Maltese Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Maltese Speaking population
Cantonese and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Maltese on Cantonese vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Maltese Language Codes
Cantonese and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.