Countries
European Union, Malta
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3031
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2426
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
Grazzi
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
Kif int?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Skużani!
жал (žal)
Bye
Ċaw
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Malta
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
520,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Debar
Where They Speak
Malta
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
500,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Galičnik
Where They Speak
-
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
500,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
228
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Malti
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
maltais
macédonien
German Name
Maltesisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Macedonians
Origin
c. 1470
2200 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
North Abric
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Macedonian
Language Position
2545
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
mac
ISO 639 3
mlt
mkd
ISO 639 6
mlt
mkd
Glottocode
malt1254
mace1250
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic