Countries
European Union, Malta
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
Roman Languages
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3031
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
67
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
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
alo
Thank You
Grazzi
multumesc
How Are You?
Kif int?
ce mai faci?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
noapte Buna
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
buna Ziua
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
bună Dimineața
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Vă Rog
Sorry
Skużani!
scuze
Bye
Ċaw
La revedere
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Qormi
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Malta
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
520,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Malta
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
210
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
Română
Alternative Names
Malti
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
maltais
roumain; moldave
German Name
Maltesisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Romanians
Origin
c. 1470
1521
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Maltese
Romanian
Language Position
2536
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
ron
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
rum
ISO 639 3
mlt
ron
ISO 639 6
mlt
ron
Glottocode
malt1254
roma1327
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic