Countries
European Union, Malta
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
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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.
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3027
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Halo
Thank You
Grazzi
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Kif int?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Sugeng énjing
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
matur nuwun
Sorry
Skużani!
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Ċaw
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Qormi
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Malta
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
520,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Malta
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Arekan
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
216
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Malti
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
maltais
javanais
German Name
Maltesisch
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
c. 1470
450 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indonesian
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Javanese
Language Position
2511
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
jav
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
jav
ISO 639 3
mlt
jav
ISO 639 6
mlt
jav
Glottocode
malt1254
java1253
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative