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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
European Union, Latvia

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Latvia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Latvian State Language Center

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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Lithuanian Language

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3033
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

69
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2424
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Sveiki

Thank You

Grazzi
Paldies

How Are You?

Kif int?
Kā jums klājas?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Ar labunakti

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Labvakar

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Labdien

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
Labrīt

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
lūdzu

Sorry

Skużani!
Piedodiet!

Bye

Ċaw
Uz redzēšanos

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Es tevi mīlu

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Piedodiet!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Livonian

Where They Speak

Malta
Latvia

How Many People Speak

520,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Middle Latvian

Where They Speak

Malta
Latvia

How Many People Speak

500,000.002,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
High Latvian

Where They Speak

-
France, Latvia

How Many People Speak

500,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

23
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million1.75 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million1.75 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million2.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
latviešu valoda

Alternative Names

Malti
Lettish

French Name

maltais
letton

German Name

Maltesisch
Lettisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈlætviən]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Latvians or Letts

History

Origin

c. 1470
1530

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Baltic

Branch

North Abric
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese
Latvian

Language Position

259
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
lv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
lav

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
lav

ISO 639 3

mlt
lav

ISO 639 6

mlt
lav

Glottocode

malt1254
latv1249

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
54-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Synthetic

Maltese and Latvian Alphabets

Maltese and Latvian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Latvian. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Latvian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Maltese and Latvian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Latvian languages. The Maltese phonology consist Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maltese greetings vs Latvian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Latvian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Latvian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maltese and Latvian dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Latvian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Latvian Dialects are spoken in different Latvian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Latvian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Latvian dialects include: Livonian , Middle Latvian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Latvian Speaking population

Maltese and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Latvian language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maltese and Latvian on Maltese vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Latvian Language Codes

Maltese and Latvian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Latvian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.