Countries
European Union, Malta
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
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Interesting Facts
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2431
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Selam
Thank You
Grazzi
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
Kif int?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Dehna dur
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
i'bakwon
Sorry
Skużani!
aznallehu
Bye
Ċaw
tschao
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
Skużi!
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Qormi
Gondar
Where They Speak
Malta
Gondar
How Many People Speak
520,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Malta
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Showa
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
25
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.50 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Malti
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
maltais
amharique
German Name
Maltesisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Amharas
Origin
c. 1470
13th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Semitic
Branch
North Abric
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Maltese
Amharic
Language Position
2555
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
amh
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
amh
ISO 639 3
mlt
amh
ISO 639 6
mlt
amh
Glottocode
malt1254
amha1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional