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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Total No. Of Countries

26
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
France, Germany, Indonesia

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
German and English Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

66
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2421
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
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
dankjewel

How Are You?

Kif int?
hoe gaat het met je?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
goede Nacht

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
goedenavond

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
goedemiddag

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
goedemorgen

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
alsjeblieft

Sorry

Skużani!
sorry

Bye

Ċaw
vaarwel

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Ik hou van jou

Excuse Me

Skużi!
pardon

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Gronings

Where They Speak

Malta
Netherlands

How Many People Speak

520,000.00590,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Low Saxon

Where They Speak

Malta
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

500,000.004,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Limburgian

Where They Speak

-
Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

27
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.32 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million22.00 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
Nederlands

Alternative Names

Malti
Hollands, Nederlands

French Name

maltais
néerlandais; flamand

German Name

Maltesisch
Niederländisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Dutch people

History

Origin

c. 1470
AD 450-500

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Germanic

Branch

North Abric
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

Standard Forms

Maltese
Standard Dutch

Language Position

2548
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
nl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
nld

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
dut

ISO 639 3

mlt
nld

ISO 639 6

mlt
nld

Glottocode

malt1254
mode1257

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
52-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Synthetic

Maltese and Dutch Alphabets

Maltese and Dutch Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Dutch. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Maltese and Dutch languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Dutch are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Maltese and Dutch Speaking population

Maltese and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Dutch on Maltese vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Dutch Language Codes

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