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Name:
Maltese
Alternate Names:
Malta; Malti; Arabic
Spoken in:
USA, Australia, Tunisia, Malta, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy
Number of speakers:
300,000 in Malta (Katzner 1975). Population total all countries: 387,270
(Ethnologue)
Code:
mlt
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Language:
Siculo-Arabic (sqr)
Child Dialects:
Zurrieq (mlt-zur)
Rural Central Maltese (mlt-ruc)
Gozo (mlt-goz)
Rural East Maltese (mlt-rue)
Port Maltese (mlt-por)
Standard Maltese (mlt-sta)
Rural West Maltese (mlt-ruw)
Map of Maltese
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