Countries
European Union, Malta
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Munda Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
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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
Henda ho
Thank You
Grazzi
Adi Johar
How Are You?
Kif int?
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
संध्यायान
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Boge Setak’
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
দয়া করে
Sorry
Skużani!
দুঃখিত
Bye
Ċaw
Hariau
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
Skużi!
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Qormi
Mahali
Where They Speak
Malta
India
How Many People Speak
520,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Not present
Where They Speak
Malta
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
21
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Malti
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
maltais
santal
German Name
Maltesisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 1470
20th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
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Branch
North Abric
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Santali
Language Position
2541
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
sat
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
sat
ISO 639 3
mlt
sat
ISO 639 6
mlt
sat
Glottocode
malt1254
sant1410
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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