Languages of Malta
[See also SIL publications on the languages of Malta.]Repubblika Ta’Malta. 403,000. National or official languages: Maltese, English. Literacy rate: 90%–96%. Also includes Arabic (250). Information mainly from M. Bateson 1967. Blind population: 565. Deaf population: 20,799. Deaf institutions: 3. The number of individual languages listed for Malta is 4. Of those, all are living languages.
| English | [eng]
2,400 in Malta (Johnstone 1993).
Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English
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| Italian | [ita]
118,000 in Malta. L2 speakers.
Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Italo-Dalmatian
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| Maltese | [mlt]
300,000 in Malta (Katzner 1975). Population total all countries: 387,270. Also in Australia, Canada, Italy, Libya, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States.
Alternate names: Malti.
Dialects: Standard Maltese, Port Maltese, Rural West Maltese, Rural East Maltese, Rural Central Maltese, Zurrieq, Gozo. Descended from Moroccan Spoken Arabic [ary] with heavy borrowings from Italian; separately developed with different syntax and phonology.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Maltese Sign Language | [mdl]
Classification: Deaf sign language
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