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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

233
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
South Africa

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
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

67
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Hello

Thank You

Grazzi
Thank you

How Are You?

Kif int?
How are you?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Night

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
Good Morning

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
Please

Sorry

Skużani!
Sorry

Bye

Ċaw
Bye

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
I love you

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
American English

Where They Speak

Malta
United States of America

How Many People Speak

520,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Malta
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

500,000.004,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Welsh English

Where They Speak

-
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

500,000.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
English

Alternative Names

Malti
English

French Name

maltais
anglais

German Name

Maltesisch
Englisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Maltese
English people

History

Origin

c. 1470
5th Century AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
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Branch

North Abric
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Maltese
Standard English

Language Position

253
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
eng

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
eng

ISO 639 3

mlt
eng

ISO 639 6

mlt
engs

Glottocode

malt1254
stan1293

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Maltese and English Alphabets

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

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

Maltese and English Speaking population

Maltese and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and English languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Maltese vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and English Language Codes

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