Countries
European Union, Malta
India, No official status
Total No. Of Countries
20
0
46
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National Language
Malta
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Fiji, Guyana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Nepal, Pakistan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
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.
- Bhojpuri was anciently written in Kaithi scripts.
- In Mughal Era, Kaithi script was used in administrative purposes for writing in Bhojpuri language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Maithili and Magahi
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3043
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2434
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
प्रणाम (prannam)
Thank You
Grazzi
धन्वाद (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
Kif int?
का हाल बा? (kaa haal ba?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
राम राम (raam raam)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
राम राम (raam raam)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
मेहरबानी करके (meharbani karke)
Sorry
Skużani!
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Bye
Ċaw
प्रणाम (prannam)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
हम तोहसे प्यार करेनी (hum tohse pyaar kareni)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
माफ़ करीं (maaf karin)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Caribbean Hindustani
Where They Speak
Malta
Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
How Many People Speak
520,000.0016,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Fiji Hindi
Where They Speak
Malta
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
500,000.00380,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Tharu Bhojpuri
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
500,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
213
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million40.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.43 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million38.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
भोजपुरी (bʰojpurī)
Alternative Names
Malti
Bajpuri, Bhojapuri, Bhozpuri, Bihari, Deswali, Khotla, Piscimas
French Name
maltais
bhojpuri
German Name
Maltesisch
Bhojpuri
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
/boʊdʒˈpʊəri/
Ethnicity
Maltese
Bhojpuri speakers
Origin
c. 1470
19th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Bhojpuri
Language Position
2537
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Bhojpuri Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
bho
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
bho
ISO 639 3
mlt
bho
ISO 639 6
mlt
bho
Glottocode
malt1254
bhoj1246
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
59-AAF-sa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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