Countries
European Union, Malta
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
India
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Dzongkha Development Commission
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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3095
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2430
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Grazzi
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Kif int?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Skużani!
Tsip maza
Bye
Ċaw
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Qormi
Laya
Where They Speak
Malta
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Lunana
Where They Speak
Malta
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
500,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
500,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
24
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Malti
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
maltais
dzongkha
German Name
Maltesisch
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Ngalop people
Origin
c. 1470
17th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Dzongkha
Language Position
2531
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
dzo
ISO 639 3
mlt
dzo
ISO 639 6
mlt
dzo
Glottocode
malt1254
nucl1307
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-