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
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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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
Roman Languages
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3042
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
611
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2431
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
Grazzi
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
Kif int?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
Skużani!
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
Ċaw
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
Skużi!
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Qormi
Baleswari
Where They Speak
Malta
India
How Many People Speak
520,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Malta
India
How Many People Speak
500,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Kosli
Where They Speak
-
India
How Many People Speak
500,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
28
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.52 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.52 million33.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.50 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Malti
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
maltais
oriya
German Name
Maltesisch
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Odias
Origin
c. 1470
3 BC
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 Odia
Language Position
2532
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
mt
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
ori
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
ori
ISO 639 3
mlt
ori
ISO 639 6
mlt
ori
Glottocode
malt1254
macr1269
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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