Countries
India, Pakistan
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
-
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
- 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
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4830
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
126
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
42 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ke aal aee
Ħello
Thank You
dhanwaad
Grazzi
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
Kif int?
Good Night
shub ratri
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
shub ratri
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
शुभ अपराह्न
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
su prabat
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
kripya
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
Skużani!
Bye
changa ji pher
Ċaw
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
Qormi
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
Malta
How Many People Speak
100,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kullu
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
Malta
How Many People Speak
110,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hinduri
Not Present
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
-
How Many People Speak
30,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
82
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
4.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
2.30 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
डोगरी
Malti
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
Malti
French Name
dogri
maltais
German Name
Dogri
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈd̪oːɡri]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Dogras
Maltese
Origin
1971
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Dogri
Maltese
Language Position
3225
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Dogri
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
doi
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
doi
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
doi
mlt
ISO 639 3
doi
mlt
ISO 639 6
doi
mlt
Glottocode
indo1311
malt1254
Linguasphere
59-AAA
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic