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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Armenian

Derived From

Roman Languages
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3024
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

67
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2417
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic, Latin

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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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

Grazzi
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

Kif int?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

Skużani!
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

Ċaw
αντίο (antío)

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

Malta
Greece

How Many People Speak

520,000.002,800.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Griko

Where They Speak

Malta
Italy

How Many People Speak

500,000.0050,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Mariupol

Where They Speak

-
Ukraine

How Many People Speak

500,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

225
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.18 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million13.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million13.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Malti
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

maltais
grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Maltesisch
Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

c. 1470
1500 BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Hellenic

Branch

North Abric
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Maltese
Modern Greek

Language Position

2574
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Greek Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
el

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
ell

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
gre

ISO 639 3

mlt
ell

ISO 639 6

mlt
ells

Glottocode

malt1254
gree1276

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic

Maltese and Greek Alphabets

Maltese and Greek Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Greek. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Greek Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Maltese and Greek languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Greek 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 Greek greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Greek are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Maltese and Greek Speaking population

Maltese and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. 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 Greek on Maltese vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Greek Language Codes

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