Countries
European Union, Malta
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3023
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2414
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Kumno
Thank You
Grazzi
Khublei
How Are You?
Kif int?
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
thia sukh
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
khublei
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Sngewbha
Sorry
Skużani!
Map
Bye
Ċaw
khublei
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
Skużi!
map a nga
Dialect 1
Qormi
Bhoi
Where They Speak
Malta
-
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Malta
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
25
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Malti
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
maltais
khasi
German Name
Maltesisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Khasi people
Origin
c. 1470
1200 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
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Branch
North Abric
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Khasi
Language Position
2540
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
kha
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
kha
ISO 639 3
mlt
kha
ISO 639 6
mlt
kha
Glottocode
malt1254
khas1269
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
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