Countries
European Union, Malta
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3021
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2419
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Bwakeye
Thank You
Grazzi
Urakoze
How Are You?
Kif int?
Urakomeye?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Mwaramutse
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Ndagusavye
Sorry
Skużani!
Ndasubiza
Bye
Ċaw
N’agasaga
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Qormi
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
Malta
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
520,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Ha
Where They Speak
Malta
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
500,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Shubi
Where They Speak
-
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
500,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million8.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Malti
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
maltais
rundi
German Name
Maltesisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
c. 1470
1500
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo 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
Kirundi
Language Position
2586
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
mt
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
run
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
run
ISO 639 3
mlt
run
ISO 639 6
mlt
run
Glottocode
malt1254
rund1242
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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