Countries
Countries
European Union, Malta
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Island of Cebu
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3021
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2416
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Ħello
Hoy
Thank You
Grazzi
Salamat
How Are You?
Kif int?
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Maayong Buntag
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Palihug
Sorry
Skużani!
Ikasubo ko
Bye
Ċaw
Babay
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Ekskyus mi
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qormi
Boholano
Where They Speak
Malta
Bohol
How Many People Speak
520,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Malta
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
500,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
North Kana
Where They Speak
-
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
500,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
24
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
Visayan
Alternative Names
Malti
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
maltais
cebuano
German Name
Maltesisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Cebuano people
History
Origin
c. 1470
16th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
2562
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
mt
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
ceb
ISO 639 3
mlt
ceb
ISO 639 6
mlt
ceb
Glottocode
malt1254
cebu1242
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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