Countries
European Union, Malta
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3025
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2418
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Baybayin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Kamusta
Thank You
Grazzi
Salamat po
How Are You?
Kif int?
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Magandang umaga po
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
pakiusap
Sorry
Skużani!
pinagsisisihan
Bye
Ċaw
Paálam
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Qormi
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Malta
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
520,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Malta
Philippines
How Many People Speak
500,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Filipino
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
500,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Malti
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
maltais
tagalog
German Name
Maltesisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Tagalog people
Origin
c. 1470
1593
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indonesian
Branch
North Abric
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Maltese
Filipino
Language Position
2558
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
tgl
ISO 639 3
mlt
tg1
ISO 639 6
mlt
tgl
Glottocode
malt1254
taga1269
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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