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Maltese

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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

29
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Austria

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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

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.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Roman Languages
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3030
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2425
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
bok

Thank You

Grazzi
hvala

How Are You?

Kif int?
kako si

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
laku noć

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
dobar dan

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
dobro jutro

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
molim

Sorry

Skużani!
Oprostite

Bye

Ċaw
Doviđenja

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Volim te

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Malta
Croatia

How Many People Speak

520,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Malta
Croatia

How Many People Speak

500,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

-
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

500,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

279
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Malti
Hrvatski

French Name

maltais
croate

German Name

Maltesisch
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Croats

History

Origin

c. 1470
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

2523
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
hrv

ISO 639 3

mlt
hrv

ISO 639 6

mlt
hrv

Glottocode

malt1254
croa1245

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
Fusional, Synthetic

Maltese and Croatian Alphabets

Maltese and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Croatian. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Maltese and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Croatian 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 Croatian dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Croatian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Croatian Dialects are spoken in different Croatian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Croatian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Croatian dialects include: Chakavian , Chakavian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Croatian Speaking population

Maltese and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Maltese vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Croatian Language Codes

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