Countries
European Union, Malta
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 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.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
Roman Languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3048
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
66
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2439
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
dobry dzień
Thank You
Grazzi
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Kif int?
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Dabranač
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
dobry dzień
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Dobraj ranicy
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Kali laska
Sorry
Skużani!
Vybačajcie
Bye
Ċaw
da pabačennia
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Qormi
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Malta
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
520,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Malta
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
500,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
-
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
500,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Malti
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
maltais
biélorusse
German Name
Maltesisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Belarusians
Origin
c. 1470
18th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
North Abric
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Maltese
Belarusian
Language Position
2579
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
bel
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
bel
ISO 639 3
mlt
bel
ISO 639 6
mlt
bel
Glottocode
malt1254
bela1254
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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