Maltese

Details

Instance of

natural language, modern language

Subclass of

Sicilian Arabic, Southern European language

Has parts

Żejtun dialect, Qormi dialect, Maltralian

Country

Malta, Canada, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

category for films in this language

Category:Maltese-language films

category for music in this language

Category:Maltese-language music

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

Ethnologue language status

1 National

has grammatical gender

masculine, feminine

has tense

present tense, past tense

indigenous to

Maltese people, Malta

language regulatory body

National Council for the Maltese Language

linguistic typology

subject–verb–object, subject–object–verb, fusional language, noun-adjective, synthetic language

named after

Malta

native label

Malti

number of speakers, writers, or signers

570000, 482880, 403000

replaces

Siculo-Arabic

short name

малтийски

studied by

Maltese studies

topic's main category

Category:Maltese language

UNESCO language status

1 safe

Wikimedia language code

mt

writing system

Maltese alphabet, Maltese Braille

Works in this collection (2)

• Il-Kantilena—
• Bonaparte à Malte1997

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