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Preferred term

mltMaltese  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Maltese (Malti) is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English, while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic (the Arabic dialect that developed in Malta and Sicily between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries). and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640. It includes notes about Maltese grammar and a concluding section detailing, in Italian and Maltese, phrases to be used when giving orders to soldiers. Facsimiles of the work are currently published.

Entry terms

  • Maltese language

ISO 639-1 code

  • mt

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • mlt

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • mlt

ISO 639-3 code

  • mlt

Notation

  • mlt

In other languages

  • Maltais

    French

  • maltais
  • Maltesisch

    German

  • Maltesische Sprache
  • maltese

    Italian

  • Lingua maltese
  • maltês

    Portuguese

  • Língua maltesa
  • maltés

    Spanish

  • Idioma maltés

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/mlt

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