Countries
European Union, Malta
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Malta
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
624
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2423
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
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ħello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Grazzi
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Kif int?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Skużani!
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Ċaw
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Malta
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
520,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Wu
Where They Speak
Malta
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
500,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
500,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
210
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Malti
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
maltais
chinois
German Name
Maltesisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Han
Origin
c. 1470
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
251
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
zho
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
chi
ISO 639 3
mlt
zho
ISO 639 6
mlt
zho
Glottocode
malt1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating