Countries
European Union, Malta
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
China, Guangdong
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
Hawaii
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Chinese Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3028
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
610
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ħello
您好
Thank You
Grazzi
谢谢
How Are You?
Kif int?
你好吗？
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
晚安
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
下午好
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
早上好
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
请
Sorry
Skużani!
遗憾
Bye
Ċaw
再见
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
我爱你
Excuse Me
Skużi!
原谅我
Dialect 1
Qormi
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Malta
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
520,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Malta
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
500,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
500,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Malti
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
maltais
cantonais
German Name
Maltesisch
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Han Chinese
Origin
c. 1470
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
251
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
yue
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
yue
ISO 639 3
mlt
No data available
ISO 639 6
mlt
yue
Glottocode
malt1254
cant1236
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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