Countries
European Union, Malta
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
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
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Marathi
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3052
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
616
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2436
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ħello
Namaskar
Thank You
Grazzi
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Kif int?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Chike
Sorry
Skużani!
Maf kor
Bye
Ċaw
Adeus
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Skużi!
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Qormi
Antruz
Where They Speak
Malta
Goa
How Many People Speak
520,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Not present
Where They Speak
Malta
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
500,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
21
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Malti
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
maltais
konkani
German Name
Maltesisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Maltese
Konkanis
Origin
c. 1470
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Kokani
Language Position
2523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
kok
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
kok
ISO 639 3
mlt
kok
ISO 639 6
mlt
kok
Glottocode
malt1254
goan1235
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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