Countries
European Union, Malta
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
China, Mongolia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Turkish Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3035
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
613
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
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
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
Grazzi
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
Kif int?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
Skużani!
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
Ċaw
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
Malta
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
520,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Malta
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
500,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
-
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
28
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million5.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Malti
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
maltais
mongol
German Name
Maltesisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
Maltese
Mongols
Origin
c. 1470
1224-1225
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Semitic
Mongolian
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
2526
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
mon
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
mon
ISO 639 3
mlt
mon
ISO 639 6
mlt
mon
Glottocode
malt1254
mong1331
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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