Maltese

Malti

Maltese is a language, spoken in Malta, Canada, United States and Australia and 1 more country. Wikidata counts 570,000 first-language speakers (2012). Wikidata describes it as “Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta”.

1 · National 482,880

Wikidata record Glottolog

At a glance

ISO 639-3: mlt
ISO 639-1: mt
Glottocode: malt1254
Family: unclassified
EGIDS: 1 National
UNESCO: Safe
Centre point: 35.89, 14.45
Wikipedia: 144 language editions

570,000first-language speakers

—second-language speakers

5countries

2scripts

—levels in the tree

1EGIDS level

Facts

Name	Maltese · Malti
Also called	Il-lingwa Maltija, lingwa Maltija, Maltese language
L1 speakers	570,000 (2012)
All speakers	482,880 (2012)
Written in	Maltese alphabet, Maltese Braille
Official in	Malta
Grammatical genders	2 listed in Wikidata

Vitality

EGIDS 1 National1

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level

UNESCO: Safe

Languages at this level

where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Maltese is spoken — Map: Goran_tek-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Maltaofficial · 4 languages in the index Canada112 languages in the index United States245 languages in the index Australia351 languages in the index United Kingdom25 languages in the index

Also spoken in Malta

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · International hyeArmenianIndo-European · 6.7 m1 · National mdlMaltese Sign Languageunclassified5 · Developing