Countries
Meghalaya
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Malta
Second Language
-
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
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
- 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
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
-
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2330
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1424
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Bengali, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumno
Ħello
Thank You
Khublei
Grazzi
How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
Kif int?
Good Night
thia sukh
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
babha janmiet
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
khublei
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Sngewbha
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Map
Skużani!
Bye
khublei
Ċaw
I Love You
ieit ieit
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
map a nga
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Bhoi
Qormi
Where They Speak
-
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Nonglung
Żejtun
Where They Speak
-
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Cherrapunji
Not Present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
52
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.84 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.84 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.50 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Ka Ktien
Malti
Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
Malti
French Name
khasi
maltais
German Name
Khasi-Sprache
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkʰɑsi]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Khasi people
Maltese
Origin
1200 AD
c. 1470
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No Early Forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khasi
Maltese
Language Position
4025
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Khasi Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kha
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
kha
mlt
ISO 639 3
kha
mlt
ISO 639 6
kha
mlt
Glottocode
khas1269
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic