Countries
European Union, Malta
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
211
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3029
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ħello
Merhaba
Thank You
Grazzi
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Kif int?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Tünaydın
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
günaydın
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
lütfen
Sorry
Skużani!
üzgünüm
Bye
Ċaw
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Qormi
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Malta
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
520,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Malta
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
500,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Gagauz
Where They Speak
-
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
500,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
29
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Malti
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
maltais
turc
German Name
Maltesisch
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Turkish
Origin
c. 1470
c. 1350
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Turkic
Branch
North Abric
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Maltese
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
2519
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
tur
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
tur
ISO 639 3
mlt
tur
ISO 639 6
mlt
tur
Glottocode
malt1254
nucl1301
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
44-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic