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Languages of Malta [1] Malta has two official languages: Maltese and English. Maltese is the national language. Until 1934, Italian was also an official language in Malta, and in the 19th and 20th centuries there was a linguistic and political debate known as the Language Question about the roles of these three languages.
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mlt. ISO 639-3. mlt. Linguasphere. 12-AAC-c. Maltese is the language of Malta, and a language of the European Union. Maltese sounds similar to the Phoenician language that was spoken in areas around the ancient Mediterranean. It is written in the Latin alphabet like English. Maltese descends from a dialect of Arabic called Siculo-Arabic.
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Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central Semitic, Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Siculo-Arabic. Number of speakers: c. 420,000. Spoken in: Malta. First written: 15th century AD. Writing system: Latin script. Status: co-official language of Malta (along with English); official language of the EU. The first known literary text in Maltese, II ...
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The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of some letters with diacritic marks and digraphs. It is used to write the Maltese language , which evolved from the otherwise extinct Siculo-Arabic dialect, as a result of 800 years of independent development.
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