Countries
European Union, Malta
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Thailand
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Indonesian Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2424
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Hai
Thank You
Grazzi
terima kasih
How Are You?
Kif int?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Selamat pagi
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
sila
Sorry
Skużani!
maaf
Bye
Ċaw
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Qormi
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Malta
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
520,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Pekal
Where They Speak
Malta
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
500,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Musi
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
500,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
224
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million175.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Malti
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
maltais
malais
German Name
Maltesisch
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Malaysian people
Origin
c. 1470
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Maltese
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
2554
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
msa
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
may
ISO 639 3
mlt
zsm
ISO 639 6
mlt
may
Glottocode
malt1254
stan1306
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative