Countries
European Union, Malta
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Poland
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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 original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3022
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
60
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2422
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
Grazzi
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
Kif int?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Skużani!
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
Ċaw
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Qormi
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Malta
Israel
How Many People Speak
520,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Malta
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
500,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
-
Israel
How Many People Speak
500,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
27
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million5.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Malti
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
maltais
hébreu
German Name
Maltesisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
c. 1470
1000 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Semitic
Branch
North Abric
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Maltese
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
2523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
heb
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
heb
ISO 639 3
mlt
heb
ISO 639 6
mlt
heb
Glottocode
malt1254
hebr1246
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic