Countries
Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
332
0
46
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National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Malta
Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Europe
Minority Language
South Africa
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Latin
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
76
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Hello
Ħello
Thank You
Thank you
Grazzi
How Are You?
How are you?
Kif int?
Good Night
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Sorry
Skużani!
Bye
Bye
Ċaw
I Love You
I love you
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
American English
Qormi
Where They Speak
United States of America
Malta
How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Malta
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Welsh English
Not Present
Where They Speak
United Kingdom
-
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1882
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
5.43 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
400.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
400.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
English
Malti
Alternative Names
English
Malti
French Name
anglais
maltais
German Name
Englisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
English people
Maltese
History
Origin
5th Century AD
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard English
Maltese
Language Position
325
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed English
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
en
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
eng
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
eng
mlt
ISO 639 3
eng
mlt
ISO 639 6
engs
mlt
Glottocode
stan1293
malt1254
Linguasphere
52-ABA
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Synthetic