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Countries

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
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Pan South African Language Board

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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
  • Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Xhosa Language

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3057
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

67
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2450
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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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Sawubona

Thank You

Grazzi
Ngiyabonga

How Are You?

Kif int?
unjani

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
okuhle ebusuku

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
okuhle kusihlwa

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
okuhle ntambama

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
okuhle ekuseni

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
Ngiyacela

Sorry

Skużani!
Ngiyaxolisa

Bye

Ċaw
bye

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Ngiyakuthanda wena

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Uxolo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Qwabe

Where They Speak

Malta
Gabon, South Africa

How Many People Speak

520,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu

Where They Speak

Malta
Georgia, South Africa

How Many People Speak

500,000.0028,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Ndebele

Where They Speak

-
Zimbabwe

How Many People Speak

500,000.0028,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

24
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million30.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.16 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million12.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million16.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
isiZulu

Alternative Names

Malti
Isizulu, Zunda

French Name

maltais
zoulou

German Name

Maltesisch
Zulu-Sprache

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[zuːlu]

Ethnicity

Maltese
Zulu people

History

Origin

c. 1470
19

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Benue-Congo

Branch

North Abric
Beatu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
urban Zulu

Standard Forms

Maltese
Deep Zulu

Language Position

2587
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
zu

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
zul

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
zul

ISO 639 3

mlt
zul

ISO 639 6

mlt
zul

Glottocode

malt1254
zulu1248

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
99-AUT-fg

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Maltese and Zulu Alphabets

Maltese and Zulu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Zulu. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Zulu Alphabets there are 57 letters. To learn Maltese and Zulu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Zulu 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 Zulu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Zulu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Maltese and Zulu Speaking population

Maltese and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. 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 Zulu on Maltese vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Zulu Language Codes

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