Countries
European Union, Malta
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Estonia, Gambia
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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Finnish
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3027
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2418
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Tere
Thank You
Grazzi
aitäh
How Are You?
Kif int?
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Head ööd
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Tere päevast
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Tere hommikust
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Palun
Sorry
Skużani!
Vabandust
Bye
Ċaw
Head aega
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Qormi
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Malta
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Tartu
Where They Speak
Malta
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Idamurre
Where They Speak
-
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
28
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million1.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Malti
Eesti keel
French Name
maltais
estonien
German Name
Maltesisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Estonians
Origin
c. 1470
13th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
North Abric
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Estonian
Language Position
2522
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
est
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
est
ISO 639 3
mlt
est
ISO 639 6
mlt
est
Glottocode
malt1254
esto1258
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative