Countries
European Union, Malta
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Malta
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Czech Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3046
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
615
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2438
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ħello
Ahoj
Thank You
Grazzi
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
Kif int?
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Dobré ráno
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
Prosím
Sorry
Skużani!
Pardón!
Bye
Ċaw
Dovidenia
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Qormi
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
Malta
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
520,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Malta
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
-
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
500,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
24
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million5.20 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million6.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Malti
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
maltais
slovaque
German Name
Maltesisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Slovaks
Origin
c. 1470
6th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
North Abric
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Maltese
Slovak
Language Position
2527
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
mt
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
slk
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
slo
ISO 639 3
mlt
slk
ISO 639 6
mlt
slk
Glottocode
malt1254
slov1269
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic