Maltese
A language of Malta
| Population | 300,000 in Malta (Katzner 1975). Population total all countries: 387,270. |
| Region | 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 |
| Language use | Official language. Vigorous. No diglossia with Standard Arabic [arb]. |
| Language development | Grammar. Bible: 1932–1984. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
GIEZENDANNER, Ruedi, author. 1983. Review of: a study of aspect in Maltese, by Albert G. Borg.
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