Countries
European Union, Malta
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2425
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Zdravo
Thank You
Grazzi
Hvala
How Are You?
Kif int?
Kako si?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Laku noc
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Dobar dan
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Dobro jutro
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
molim vas
Sorry
Skużani!
Oprostite
Bye
Ċaw
Zbogom
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Volim te
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Qormi
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Malta
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
520,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Malta
Croatia
How Many People Speak
500,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Malti
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
maltais
bosniaque
German Name
Maltesisch
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Bosniaks
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
Bosnian
Language Position
2524
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
bos
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
bos
ISO 639 3
mlt
bos
ISO 639 6
mlt
boss
Glottocode
malt1254
bosn1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-