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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

27
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

Roman Languages
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3026
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

610
0 32
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How Many Consonants

249
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
hallo

Thank You

Grazzi
Danke

How Are You?

Kif int?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
guten Tag

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
guten Morgen

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
bitte

Sorry

Skużani!
Verzeihung

Bye

Ċaw
Tschüs

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Malta
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

520,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Malta
Germany

How Many People Speak

500,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Texas German

Where They Speak

-
Texas

How Many People Speak

500,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

228
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Malti
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

maltais
allemand

German Name

Maltesisch
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Germans

History

Origin

c. 1470
6th Century AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Germanic

Branch

North Abric
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

259
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
deu

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
ger

ISO 639 3

mlt
deu

ISO 639 6

mlt
deus

Glottocode

malt1254
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Maltese and German Alphabets

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

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

Maltese and German Speaking population

Maltese and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and German languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Maltese vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and German Language Codes

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