Countries
European Union, Malta
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Europe
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3047
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2422
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
-
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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Hello
Ħello
pranam
Thank You
Grazzi
dhanyabad
How Are You?
Kif int?
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Śubharātri
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Suprabhaat
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
kripaya
Sorry
Skużani!
maf karai
Bye
Ċaw
Alavidā
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
Skużi!
kripaya
Dialect 1
Qormi
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Malta
Nepal
How Many People Speak
520,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Malta
North India
How Many People Speak
500,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Khortha
Where They Speak
-
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
500,000.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
215
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million32.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million2.80 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Malti
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
maltais
maithili
German Name
Maltesisch
Maithili
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Maithil
Origin
c. 1470
14th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European 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
Standard Maithili
Language Position
2540
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
mai
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
mai
ISO 639 3
mlt
mai
ISO 639 6
mlt
mai
Glottocode
malt1254
mait1250
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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