Maltese leid

Maltese (Maltese: Malti) is the naitional leid o Maltae, an a co-offeecial leid o the kintra alangside Inglis,^[3] while forby servin as an offeecial leid o the European Union, the anerlie Semitic leid sae distinguished. Maltese is descendit frae Siculo-Arabic (the Arabic dialect that developit in Maltae an Sicily atween the nint an the fowerteent centuries).^[4][5] Aboot hauf o the vocabulary is borraed frae Italian an Sicilian,^[4] an Inglis wirds mak up as muckle as 20% o the Maltese vocabulary.^[6] It is the anerlie Semitic leid written in the Laitin alphabet in its staundart form.

Maltese
Malti
Native tae	Maltae
Native speakers	520,000 (2012)[1]
Leid faimily	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Wast Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Auld Arabic Clessical Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Siculo-Arabic Maltese
Writin seestem	Latin (Maltese alphabet) Maltese Braille
Offeecial status
Offeecial leid in	Maltae  European Union
Regulatit bi	Naitional Cooncil for the Maltese Leid Il-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ilsien Malti
Leid codes
ISO 639-1	mt
ISO 639-2	mlt
ISO 639-3	mlt
Glottolog	malt1254[2]
Linguasphere	12-AAC-c
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