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Language code: mlt

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mlt

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The table below provides technical details for the Maltese language, designated by the mlt code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

mlt

Name

Official

Maltese

Native

Malti

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Maltese (Island of Malta)Gozitan Maltese
Related languages
Tunisian ArabicLibyan ArabicAlgerian Arabic
Key facts
Only Semitic language written in Latin scriptAbout a third of its vocabulary comes from Sicilian and ItalianUses unique digraph għ that once marked a pharyngeal consonant but is now mostly silentEarliest known Maltese text is the 15th-century poem Il-CantilenaMaltese verbs retain Semitic morphology while many nouns are Romance loans
Sample phrase

Ħello, kif inti?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-3, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Maltese language, identified by the code mlt, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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