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Extinct: no
Family: Afro-Asiatic
Branch: Semitic
Continent: Europe
Country: Malta
 
Region: MALTESE: Also spoken in Australia, Canada, Italy, Tunisia, United Kingdom, USA. MALTESE, SIGN: None
Countries Where Spoken: MALTESE: 300,000 in Malta (1975 Katzner). Population total all countries: 371,900. Australia, Canada, Italy, Tunisia, United Kingdom, USA.
Countries Where Official: Malta
   
Native Speakers: 300,000
Speakers Total: 371,900
  
Phrasebase members who speak this language at a native level: 65
Phrasebase members who speak this language at a conversational level: 65
Phrasebase members primary language they are trying to learn: 137
Phrasebase members secondary language they are trying to learn: 451
  
Three Letter Code: MLT
Alternative Names: MALTI
Dialects:
 
Summary: MALTESE: It is descended from Maghrebi Arabic but has borrowed heavily from Italian; it is a separately developed form with different syntax and phonology. No diglossia with Standard Arabic. Not endangered. National language. Grammar. Roman script. Bible 1932-1984.
 

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