Countries
European Union, Malta
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Farsi Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3033
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2429
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
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Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Silaw
Thank You
Grazzi
Sipas
How Are You?
Kif int?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Bayanit bash
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Skużani!
Bibûre
Bye
Ċaw
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Qormi
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Malta
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
520,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Malta
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
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Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.50 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Malti
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
maltais
kurde
German Name
Maltesisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Kurds
Origin
c. 1470
16th century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Abric
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Maltese
Kurdish
Language Position
2514
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
kur
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
kur
ISO 639 3
mlt
kur
ISO 639 6
mlt
kur
Glottocode
malt1254
kurd1259
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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