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Countries

Countries

Japan
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

12
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Malta

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Europe

Minority Language

Palau
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
National Council for the Maltese Language

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

-
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9930
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1424
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

56
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Ħello

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Grazzi

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Kif int?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Skużani!

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Ċaw

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Qormi

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Malta

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Malta

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Not Present

Where They Speak

kansai
-

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Malti

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Malti

French Name

japonais
maltais

German Name

Japanisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Maltese

History

Origin

1185
c. 1470

Language Family

Japonic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

-
Semitic

Branch

-
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Maltese

Language Position

825
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
mlt

ISO 639 3

jpn
mlt

ISO 639 6

jpn
mlt

Glottocode

nucl1643
malt1254

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Synthetic

Japanese and Maltese Alphabets

Japanese and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Maltese. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Japanese and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Maltese languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese 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 Japanese and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Maltese Speaking population

Japanese and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Maltese on Japanese vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Maltese Language Codes

Japanese and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.