Countries
India
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
India
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
-
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Old German Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5230
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
166
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3624
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Ħello
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Grazzi
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Kif int?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Skużani!
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Ċaw
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Not present
Qormi
Where They Speak
-
Malta
How Many People Speak
140,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Żejtun
Where They Speak
-
Malta
How Many People Speak
140,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not Present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
02
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Malti
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Malti
French Name
sanskrit
maltais
German Name
Sanskrit
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Maltese
Origin
2000 B.C.
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Maltese
Language Position
2325
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
san
mlt
ISO 639 3
san
mlt
ISO 639 6
san
mlt
Glottocode
sans1269
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Synthetic