Countries
European Union, Malta
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Yemen
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Hello
Thank You
Grazzi
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Kif int?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Fadlan
Sorry
Skużani!
sorry
Bye
Ċaw
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Skużi!
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Qormi
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Malta
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
520,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Malta
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
500,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
500,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Malti
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
maltais
somali
German Name
Maltesisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Somalis
Origin
c. 1470
19th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Cushitic
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Somali
Language Position
2583
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
som
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
som
ISO 639 3
mlt
som
ISO 639 6
mlt
som
Glottocode
malt1254
soma1255
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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