Countries
European Union, Malta
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Malta
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Council for the Maltese Language
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Western Arabic Dialects
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Roman Languages
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3036
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
69
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2427
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ħello
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Grazzi
rakhmat
How Are You?
Kif int?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
L-għodwa t-tajba
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
Jekk jogħġbok
birdam
Sorry
Skużani!
kachurung
Bye
Ċaw
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Inħobbok ħafna
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Skużi!
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Qormi
Turpan
Where They Speak
Malta
China
How Many People Speak
520,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Żejtun
Hotan
Where They Speak
Malta
China
How Many People Speak
500,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not Present
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
-
China
How Many People Speak
500,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
27
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.52 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.02 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.52 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.50 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Malti
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Malti
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
maltais
ouïgour
German Name
Maltesisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[mɔːltiːz]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Maltese
Uyghur
Origin
c. 1470
11
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
North Abric
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Maltese
Uyghur
Language Position
2598
1
120
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Signed Forms
Maltese Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
mt
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mlt
uig
ISO 639 2/B
mlt
uig
ISO 639 3
mlt
uig
ISO 639 6
mlt
uig
Glottocode
malt1254
uigh1240
Linguasphere
12-AAC-c
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
-