Countries
European Union, Malta
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2428
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Grazzi
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Kif int?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
Skużani!
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
Ċaw
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Malta
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
520,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Malta
Kartli
How Many People Speak
500,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Pshavian
Where They Speak
-
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
500,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
220
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.50 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Malti
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
maltais
géorgien
German Name
Maltesisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Georgians
Origin
c. 1470
5th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Southern
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Modern Georgian
Language Position
25120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mt
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
kat
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
geo
ISO 639 3
mlt
kat
ISO 639 6
mlt
kat
Glottocode
malt1254
nucl1302
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic