Countries
European Union, Malta
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Roman Languages
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
610
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2443
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Molo
Thank You
Grazzi
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
Kif int?
Unjani
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Molo
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Ndicela
Sorry
Skużani!
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
Ċaw
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Qormi
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
Malta
South Africa
How Many People Speak
520,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Thembu
Where They Speak
Malta
South Africa
How Many People Speak
500,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Hlubi
Where They Speak
-
South Africa
How Many People Speak
500,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
29
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Malti
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
maltais
xhosa
German Name
Maltesisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
Maltese
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 1470
16th 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
isiXhosa
Language Position
2521
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
xho
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
xho
ISO 639 3
mlt
xho
ISO 639 6
mlt
xho
Glottocode
malt1254
xhos1239
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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