Countries
European Union, Malta
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Palau
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Korean Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3099
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2414
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kana
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
Grazzi
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
Kif int?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
Skużani!
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
Ċaw
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Sanuki
Where They Speak
Malta
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Hakata
Where They Speak
Malta
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
500,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Kansai
Where They Speak
-
kansai
How Many People Speak
500,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
231
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
日本語
Alternative Names
Malti
Nihongo
French Name
maltais
japonais
German Name
Maltesisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
c. 1470
1185
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Maltese
Japanese
Language Position
258
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
jpn
ISO 639 3
mlt
jpn
ISO 639 6
mlt
jpn
Glottocode
malt1254
nucl1643
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic