Countries
Countries
European Union, Malta
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3053
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2441
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Ħello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Grazzi
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Kif int?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Skużani!
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Ċaw
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qormi
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Malta
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Mappila
Where They Speak
Malta
India
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Not Available
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
23
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million38.00 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
NA0.57 %
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million38.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Malti
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
maltais
malayalam
German Name
Maltesisch
Malayalam
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Maltese
Malayali
History
Origin
c. 1470
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Not Available
Branch
North Abric
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Maltese
Malayalam
Language Position
NA29
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
mt
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
mal
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
mal
ISO 639 3
mlt
mal
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
mala1464
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic