Countries
Countries
European Union, Malta
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Malta
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Roman Languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3024
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
Ħello
Habari
Thank You
Grazzi
Asante
How Are You?
Kif int?
Habari gani?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Habari za asubuhi
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
tafadhali
Sorry
Skużani!
pole
Bye
Ċaw
bye
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Samahani
Dialects
Dialect 1
Qormi
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Malta
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Żejtun
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Malta
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
NANA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not Present
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Not Available
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million15.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Malti
-9999
Alternative Names
Malti
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
maltais
swahili
German Name
Maltesisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Maltese
Swahili people or Waswahili
History
Origin
c. 1470
6th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Benue-Congo
Branch
North Abric
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Maltese
Swahili
Language Position
NANA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Code
ISO 639 1
mt
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
swa
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
swa
ISO 639 3
mlt
swa
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
malt1254
swah1254
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available