Countries
European Union, Malta
Laos
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Laos, Northeastern Thailand
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
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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.
- There is no space left between words, only between phrases or sentences in Lao language.
- The Lao alphabets has been reformed many times over the past 50 years.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Thai Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Pali, Sanskrit and Old Khmer Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
628
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2427
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Thai and Lao Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, 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
ສະບາຍດີ (sába̖ai-di̖i)
Thank You
Grazzi
ຂອບໃຈ (khàwp ja̖i)
How Are You?
Kif int?
ສະບາຍດີບ (sába̖ai-di̖i baw?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ໃນຕອນກາງຄືນ ທີ່ດີ (naitonkangkhun thidi)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ສະບາຍດີຕອນແລງ (sa bai di ton aelng)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ສະບາຍດີຕອນສວາຍ (sa bai di ton suaai)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
ສະບາຍດີຕອນເຊົ້າ (sa bai di ton sao)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
ກະລຸນາ (kaluna)
Sorry
Skużani!
ຂໍອະໄພ (khooaphai)
Bye
Ċaw
Sôhk dii der
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ຂ້ອຍຮັກເຈົ້າ (khony hak chao)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
ຂໍໂທດ (kho othd)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Vientiane Lao
Where They Speak
Malta
Laos
How Many People Speak
520,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Northern Lao
Where They Speak
Malta
Laos
How Many People Speak
500,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Central Lao
Where They Speak
-
Laos
How Many People Speak
500,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
26
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
ພາສາລາວ (pháasaa láo)
Alternative Names
Malti
Eastern Thai, Lào, Lao Kao, Lao Wiang, Lao-Lum, Lao-Noi, Lao-Tai, Laotian, Laotian Tai, Lum Lao, Phou Lao, Rong Kong, Tai Lao
French Name
maltais
lao
German Name
Maltesisch
Laotisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
pʰáːsǎː láːw
Ethnicity
Maltese
Lao people
Origin
c. 1470
1283 CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Tai
Branch
North Abric
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No Early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Lao
Language Position
2543
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Lao Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
lo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
lao
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
lao
ISO 639 3
mlt
lao
ISO 639 6
mlt
lao
Glottocode
malt1254
laoo1244
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Isolating