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Maltese

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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council

Total No. Of Countries

25
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)

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.
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Norwegian and Swedish

Derived From

Roman Languages
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3029
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

620
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2420
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Hallo

Thank You

Grazzi
Mange tak

How Are You?

Kif int?
Hvordan har du det?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
God nat

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
God aften

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
God eftermiddag

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
God morgen

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
Please

Sorry

Skużani!
Undskyld!

Bye

Ċaw
Farvel

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Jeg elsker dig

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Undskyld mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Scanian

Where They Speak

Malta
Sweden

How Many People Speak

520,000.0080,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Jutlandic

Where They Speak

Malta
Denmark

How Many People Speak

500,000.006,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Bornholmsk

Where They Speak

-
Island of Bornholm

How Many People Speak

500,000.006,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

24
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million5.50 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million5.50 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
dansk

Alternative Names

Malti
Dansk, Rigsdansk

French Name

maltais
danois

German Name

Maltesisch
Dänisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Danish people or Danes

History

Origin

c. 1470
c. 1100 AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
-

Branch

North Abric
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish

Standard Forms

Maltese
Rigsdansk

Language Position

2518
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Signed Danish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
da

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
dan

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
dan

ISO 639 3

mlt
dan

ISO 639 6

mlt
dan

Glottocode

malt1254
dani1284

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional

Maltese and Danish Alphabets

Maltese and Danish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Danish. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Danish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Maltese and Danish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Danish 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 Danish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Danish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Maltese and Danish Speaking population

Maltese and Danish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Danish languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Danish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Danish language is 0.07 %. 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 Danish on Maltese vs Danish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Danish Language Codes

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