Countries
European Union, Malta
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Macedonian language
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
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
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Grazzi
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Kif int?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Skużani!
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Ċaw
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Malta
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
520,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Malta
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
500,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Pirdop
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
500,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
258
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Malti
Balgarski
French Name
maltais
bulgare
German Name
Maltesisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 1470
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
North Abric
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2588
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
bul
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
bul
ISO 639 3
mlt
bul
ISO 639 6
mlt
buls
Glottocode
malt1254
bulg1262
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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