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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan
European Union, Malta

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Pakistan
Malta

Second Language

Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania
Europe

Minority Language

India
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America

Regulated By

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
National Council for the Maltese Language

Interesting Facts

  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  • 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

Arabic and Hindi Languages
Western Arabic Dialects

Derived From

Ghaznavid Persian Language
Roman Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5230
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

106
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4024
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

46
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

خوش آمديد
Ħello

Thank You

آپ کا شکریہ
Grazzi

How Are You?

آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Kif int?

Good Night

گڈ نائٹ
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Evening

سلام علیکم
Il-Lejla it-tajba

Good Afternoon

گڈ آفٹر نون
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb

Good Morning

گڈ مارننگ
L-għodwa t-tajba

Please

براہ مہربانی
Jekk jogħġbok

Sorry

معاف کرنا
Skużani!

Bye

الوداع
Ċaw

I Love You

مجھے تم سے محبت
Inħobbok ħafna

Excuse Me

معاف کیجئے گا
Skużi!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dakhini
Qormi

Where They Speak

India
Malta

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hyderabadi Urdu
Żejtun

Where They Speak

India
Malta

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.00500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rekhta
Not Present

Where They Speak

South Asia
-

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.00500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

32
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

104.00 million0.52 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.02 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

61.00 million0.52 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

43.00 million0.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

اُردُو
Malti

Alternative Names

Bihari
Malti

French Name

ourdou
maltais

German Name

Urdu
Maltesisch

Pronunciation

[ˈʊrd̪u]
[mɔːltiːz]

Ethnicity

Urdu-speaking people
Maltese

History

Origin

12th Century CE
c. 1470

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Semitic

Branch

Indic
North Abric

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Urdu
Maltese

Language Position

2025
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Urdu
Maltese Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ur
mt

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

urd
mlt

ISO 639 2/B

urd
mlt

ISO 639 3

urd
mlt

ISO 639 6

urd
mlt

Glottocode

urdu1245
malt1254

Linguasphere

59-AAF-q
12-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Synthetic

Urdu and Maltese Alphabets

Urdu and Maltese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Urdu and Maltese. In Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Urdu and Maltese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Urdu and Maltese languages. The Urdu phonology consist Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Urdu greetings vs Maltese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Urdu and Maltese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Urdu 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 Urdu and Maltese dialects. Various dialects of Urdu and Maltese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Urdu are spoken in different Urdu Speaking Countries whereas Maltese Dialects are spoken in different Maltese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Urdu vs Maltese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Urdu dialects include: Dakhini, Hyderabadi Urdu. Maltese dialects include: Qormi , Żejtun. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Urdu and Maltese Speaking population

Urdu and Maltese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Maltese languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Maltese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % 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 Urdu and Maltese on Urdu vs Maltese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and Maltese Language Codes

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