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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

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.
  • In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
  • Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3036
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

68
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2428
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
kedụ

Thank You

Grazzi
dalụ

How Are You?

Kif int?
kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
ka chi fo

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ehihie ọma

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
ụtụtụ ọma

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
Biko

Sorry

Skużani!
Ndo

Bye

Ċaw
Kachifo

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

Skużi!
ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Enuani

Where They Speak

Malta
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

520,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Ngwa

Where They Speak

Malta
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Not present

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

500,000.0024.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

220
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.09 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million24.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
igbo

Alternative Names

Malti
Ibo

French Name

maltais
igbo

German Name

Maltesisch
Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Igbo people

History

Origin

c. 1470
30th Century BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Kwa

Branch

North Abric
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese
Standard Igbo

Language Position

2557
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
ig

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
ibo

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
ibo

ISO 639 3

mlt
ibo

ISO 639 6

mlt
ibo

Glottocode

malt1254
nucl1417

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative

Maltese and Igbo Alphabets

Maltese and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Igbo. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Maltese and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Maltese and Igbo Speaking population

Maltese and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. 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 Igbo on Maltese vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Igbo Language Codes

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