Countries
European Union, Malta
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Hindi
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Grazzi
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kif int?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good afternoon
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
कृपया
Sorry
Skużani!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Ċaw
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Doteli
Where They Speak
Malta
Nepal
How Many People Speak
520,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Malta
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Malti
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
maltais
népalais
German Name
Maltesisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 1470
19 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Abric
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Maltese
Nepali
Language Position
2559
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
nep
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
nep
ISO 639 3
mlt
npi
ISO 639 6
mlt
nep
Glottocode
malt1254
nepa1254
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative