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Maltese
Maltese

Swedish
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland

Speaking Continents

Europe
Antartica, Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council

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 Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Norwegian and Danish Language

Derived From

Roman Languages
Old Norse Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3029
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

69
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2418
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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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
hej

Thank You

Grazzi
tacka dig

How Are You?

Kif int?
hur mår du

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
godnatt

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
god kväll

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
god eftermiddag

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
god morgon

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
vänligen

Sorry

Skużani!
ledsen

Bye

Ċaw
hej då

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
jag älskar dig

Excuse Me

Skużi!
ursäkta mig

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Dialects

Where They Speak

Malta
Gabon

How Many People Speak

520,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Dialects

Where They Speak

Malta
Georgia

How Many People Speak

500,000.0078,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Dialects

Where They Speak

-
France

How Many People Speak

500,000.0096,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

279
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million15.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
Svenska

Alternative Names

Malti
Ruotsi, Svenska

French Name

maltais
suédois

German Name

Maltesisch
Schwedisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Swedes, Finland Swedes

History

Origin

c. 1470
13th Century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Germanic

Branch

North Abric
Northern (Scandinavian)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Swedish

Standard Forms

Maltese
Standard Swedish

Language Position

2589
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
sv

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
swe

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
swe

ISO 639 3

mlt
swe

ISO 639 6

mlt
swe

Glottocode

malt1254
swed1254

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
52-AAA-ck to -cw

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
-

Maltese and Swedish Alphabets

Maltese and Swedish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Swedish. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Maltese and Swedish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Swedish 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 Swedish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Swedish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Maltese and Swedish Speaking population

Maltese and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Swedish on Maltese vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Swedish Language Codes

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