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Maltese
Maltese

Swahili
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

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.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3024
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2421
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Habari

Thank You

Grazzi
Asante

How Are You?

Kif int?
Habari gani?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
tafadhali

Sorry

Skużani!
pole

Bye

Ċaw
bye

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Malta
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

520,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Malta
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

500,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Kimgao

Where They Speak

-
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

500,000.0075,000,000.00
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 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Malti
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

maltais
swahili

German Name

Maltesisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

c. 1470
6th century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Benue-Congo

Branch

North Abric
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Maltese
Swahili

Language Position

2521
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
swa

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
swa

ISO 639 3

mlt
swa

ISO 639 6

mlt
swa

Glottocode

malt1254
swah1254

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
-

Maltese and Swahili Alphabets

Maltese and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Swahili. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Maltese and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Swahili 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 Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Swahili Speaking population

Maltese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Swahili on Maltese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Swahili Language Codes

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