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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

23
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

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.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3032
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

66
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2423
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, 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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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
سلام

Thank You

Grazzi
متشکرم

How Are You?

Kif int?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
صبح به خیر

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
لطفا

Sorry

Skużani!
متاسف

Bye

Ċaw
خدا حافظ

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Skużi!
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Malta
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

520,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Malta
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

500,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

-
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

500,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

212
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
فارسی

Alternative Names

Malti
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

maltais
persan

German Name

Maltesisch
Persisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Persian people

History

Origin

c. 1470
1500 BC

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Indo-Iranian

Branch

North Abric
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Maltese
Persian

Language Position

2523
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
fas

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
per

ISO 639 3

mlt
pes

ISO 639 6

mlt
pers

Glottocode

malt1254
fars1254

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Synthetic

Maltese and Persian Alphabets

Maltese and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Persian. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Maltese and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Persian languages. The Maltese phonology consist Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maltese greetings vs Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Persian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maltese and Persian dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Persian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Persian Dialects are spoken in different Persian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Persian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Persian dialects include: Western Persian , Dari Persian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Persian Speaking population

Maltese and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maltese and Persian on Maltese vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Persian Language Codes

Maltese and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.