Countries
Countries
European Union, Malta
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Austria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
Roman Languages
Church Slavonic
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3030
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2425
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Ħello
bok
Thank You
Grazzi
hvala
How Are You?
Kif int?
kako si
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
laku noć
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
dobar dan
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
dobro jutro
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
molim
Sorry
Skużani!
Oprostite
Bye
Ċaw
Doviđenja
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Volim te
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Ispričavam se
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qormi
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Malta
Croatia
How Many People Speak
NA660,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Malta
Croatia
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
NA13,000,000.00
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
279
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million89.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
NA89.00 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million5.60 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NA1.25 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Malti
Hrvatski
French Name
maltais
croate
German Name
Maltesisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Croats
History
Origin
c. 1470
9th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Abric
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
NA23
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
mt
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
hrv
ISO 639 3
mlt
hrv
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
croa1245
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
part of 53-AAA-g
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic