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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Malawi, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe

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
Zambia

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.
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Zulu language

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3031
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2418
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

65
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks32 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Moni

Thank You

Grazzi
Zikomo

How Are You?

Kif int?
Muli bwanji?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Usiku wabwino

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Madzulo abwino

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Masana abwino

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
M'mawa wabwino

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
Chonde

Sorry

Skużani!
pepani

Bye

Ċaw
anatsanzikana

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Ndimakukondani

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Pepani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Kasungu

Where They Speak

Malta
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

520,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Kikamtunda

Where They Speak

Malta
Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

500,000.0010,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Kimaravi

Where They Speak

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Malawi, Zambia

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,200,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

25
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million12.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.17 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
Nyanja

Alternative Names

Malti
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa

French Name

maltais
chichewa; chewa; nyanja

German Name

Maltesisch
Nyanja-Sprache

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈtʃewa]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Chewa people

History

Origin

c. 1470
15th Century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Benue-Congo

Branch

North Abric
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese
Chewa

Language Position

2527
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
ny

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
nya

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
nya

ISO 639 3

mlt
nya

ISO 639 6

mlt
nya

Glottocode

malt1254
nyan1308

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
99-AUS-xaa – xag

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Maltese and Chewa Alphabets

Maltese and Chewa Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Chewa. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Chewa Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Maltese and Chewa languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Chewa languages. The Maltese phonology consist Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maltese greetings vs Chewa greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Chewa are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Chewa Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maltese and Chewa dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Chewa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Chewa Dialects are spoken in different Chewa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Chewa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Chewa dialects include: Kasungu , Kikamtunda. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Chewa Speaking population

Maltese and Chewa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Chewa languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Chewa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Chewa language is 0.17 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maltese and Chewa on Maltese vs Chewa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Chewa Language Codes

Maltese and Chewa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Chewa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.