Countries
European Union, Malta
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Latvian
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3032
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Sveiki
Thank You
Grazzi
Ačiū
How Are You?
Kif int?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Labanakt
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Laba diena
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Labas rytas
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Prašom
Sorry
Skużani!
atsiprašau
Bye
Ċaw
Ate
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Qormi
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Malta
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
520,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Malta
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
500,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Curonian
Where They Speak
-
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
210
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Malti
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
maltais
lituanien
German Name
Maltesisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Lithuanians
Origin
c. 1470
c. 1503
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Lithuanian
Language Position
2544
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
lit
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
lit
ISO 639 3
mlt
lit
ISO 639 6
mlt
lit
Glottocode
malt1254
lith1251
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic