Maltese leid
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Maltese (Maltese: Malti) is the naitional leid o Maltae, an a co-offeecial leid o the kintra alangside Inglis,[3] while forby servin as an offeecial leid o the European Union, the anerlie Semitic leid sae distinguished. Maltese is descendit frae Siculo-Arabic (the Arabic dialect that developit in Maltae an Sicily atween the nint an the fowerteent centuries).[4][5] Aboot hauf o the vocabulary is borraed frae Italian an Sicilian,[4] an Inglis wirds mak up as muckle as 20% o the Maltese vocabulary.[6] It is the anerlie Semitic leid written in the Laitin alphabet in its staundart form.
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Maltese | |
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Malti | |
Native tae | Maltae |
Native speakers | 520,000 (2012)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Latin (Maltese alphabet) Maltese Braille | |
Offeecial status | |
Offeecial leid in | ![]() ![]() |
Regulatit bi | Naitional Cooncil for the Maltese Leid Il-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ilsien Malti |
Leid codes | |
ISO 639-1 | mt |
ISO 639-2 | mlt |
ISO 639-3 | mlt |
Glottolog | malt1254 [2] |
Linguasphere | 12-AAC-c |
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