Countries
Countries
Wales
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Europe
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
National Council for the Maltese Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
British Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2930
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Helô
Ħello
Thank You
Diolch
Grazzi
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
Kif int?
Good Night
Nos da
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Bore da
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Skużani!
Bye
Hwyl
Ċaw
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Qormi
Where They Speak
Argentina
Malta
How Many People Speak
38,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Malta
How Many People Speak
700,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Not Present
Where They Speak
Powys
-
How Many People Speak
700,000.00500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
82
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
0.70 million0.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Malti
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Malti
French Name
gallois
maltais
German Name
Kymrisch
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
Maltese
History
Origin
9th Century
c. 1470
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Semitic
Branch
Brythonic
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms
Standard Forms
Welsh
Maltese
Language Position
3125
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
cy
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
wel
mlt
ISO 639 3
cym
mlt
ISO 639 6
cym
mlt
Glottocode
wels1247
malt1254
Linguasphere
50-ABA
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic