Countries
European Union, Malta
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Malta
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Urdu
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3044
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2433
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
64
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Grazzi
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Kif int?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Skużani!
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Ċaw
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Malta
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
520,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Marwari
Where They Speak
Malta
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
500,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Bundeli
Where They Speak
-
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
500,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
221
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million120.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Malti
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
maltais
hindi
German Name
Maltesisch
Hindi
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Hindustani people
Origin
c. 1470
7th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
North Abric
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Standard Hindi
Language Position
255
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
hin
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
hin
ISO 639 3
mlt
hin
ISO 639 6
mlt
hins
Glottocode
malt1254
hind1269
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional, Synthetic