Countries
Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
462
0
46
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National Language
Spain
Malta
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Europe
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
- 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
French Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Latin
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2730
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2224
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
hola
Ħello
Thank You
Gracias
Grazzi
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
Kif int?
Good Night
Buenas Noches
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Buenos Días
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Por Favor
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
triste
Skużani!
Bye
adiós
Ċaw
I Love You
Te Quiero
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
Qormi
Where They Speak
Mexico
Malta
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Cuba
Malta
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
Not Present
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
Not Available
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00NA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million0.52 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
6.15 %NA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
410.00 million0.52 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
89.50 millionNA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Español
Malti
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
Malti
French Name
espagnol; castillan
maltais
German Name
Spanisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Maltese
History
Origin
210 BC
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Romance
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Maltese
Language Position
2NA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
es
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
spa
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
spa
mlt
ISO 639 3
spa
mlt
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1288
malt1254
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Synthetic