Maltese
The official languages of Malta are Maltese
and English. Maltese (Malti) is a unique language with many words borrowed from
the languages of the various countries that once occupied Malta. The Maltese
language is the only Semitic tongue officially written in the Latin alphabet. It
is a modern Arabic vernacular closely related to the western Arabic dialects. In
its phonetics, morphology, syntax and vocabulary it shows the strong influence
of an earlier, later and continuing Sicilian (Latin) from of speech. There are
30 letters in the Maltese alphabet
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