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Countries

Countries

European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Sweden
Malta

Second Language

Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Antartica, Europe
Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
National Council for the Maltese Language

Interesting Facts

  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  • 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

Norwegian and Danish Language
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

Old Norse Language
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2930
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

96
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1824
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

66
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hej
Ħello

Thank You

tacka dig
Grazzi

How Are You?

hur mår du
Kif int?

Good Night

godnatt
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

god kväll
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

god eftermiddag
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

god morgon
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

vänligen
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

ledsen
Skużani!

Bye

hej då
Ċaw

I Love You

jag älskar dig
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

ursäkta mig
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dialects
Qormi

Where They Speak

Gabon
Malta

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Dialects
Żejtun

Where They Speak

Georgia
Malta

How Many People Speak

78,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Dialects
Not Present

Where They Speak

France
-

How Many People Speak

96,000,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

792
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

15.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.13 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.70 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

5.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Svenska
Malti

Alternative Names

Ruotsi, Svenska
Malti

French Name

suédois
maltais

German Name

Schwedisch
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Swedes, Finland Swedes
Maltese

History

Origin

13th Century
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Semitic

Branch

Northern (Scandinavian)
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Swedish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Swedish
Maltese

Language Position

8925
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sv
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swe
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

swe
mlt

ISO 639 3

swe
mlt

ISO 639 6

swe
mlt

Glottocode

swed1254
malt1254

Linguasphere

52-AAA-ck to -cw
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Swedish and Maltese Alphabets

Swedish and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swedish and Maltese. In Swedish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Swedish and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swedish and Maltese languages. The Swedish phonology consist Swedish vowels and Swedish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swedish greetings vs Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swedish and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swedish and Maltese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Swedish and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Swedish and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swedish are spoken in different Swedish Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swedish vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swedish dialects include: Dialects, Dialects. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swedish and Maltese Speaking population

Swedish and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Swedish and Maltese on Swedish vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Maltese Language Codes

Swedish and Maltese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swedish and Maltese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.