Countries
European Union, Malta
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Czech Republic
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
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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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Chinese Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3037
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Xin chào
Thank You
Grazzi
Cam on
How Are You?
Kif int?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Chào buổi sáng
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
xin vui lòng
Sorry
Skużani!
Xin lỗi
Bye
Ċaw
Tạm biệt
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Qormi
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Malta
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
520,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Malta
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
500,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
-
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
500,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
25
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Malti
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
maltais
vietnamien
German Name
Maltesisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Maltese
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
c. 1470
c. 1440
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
2514
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
vie
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
vie
ISO 639 3
mlt
vie
ISO 639 6
mlt
vie
Glottocode
malt1254
viet1252
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Analytic, Isolating