Countries
European Union, Malta
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Nynorsk
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2420
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
hallo
Thank You
Grazzi
takk
How Are You?
Kif int?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
god natt
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
god kveld
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
god morgen
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Vær så snill
Sorry
Skużani!
unnskyld
Bye
Ċaw
ha det
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
Skużi!
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Qormi
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Malta
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
520,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Malta
Sogn
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
-
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
219
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million5.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
Norsk
Alternative Names
Malti
Norsk
French Name
maltais
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Maltesisch
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Maltese
Norwegians
Origin
c. 1470
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Germanic
Branch
North Abric
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
2518
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
nor
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
nor
ISO 639 3
mlt
nor
ISO 639 6
mlt
nor
Glottocode
malt1254
norw1258
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional