Language code: mt

Technical information about ISO 639 language code mt

The table below provides technical details for the Maltese language, designated by the mt code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

mt

Name

Official

Maltese

Native

Malti

Family
Semitic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Maltese belongs to the Semitic language family. It is one of the official languages of Malta, and it is written using Latin script (Maltese alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 570,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

499K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Maltese speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

mt-MT Maltese (Malta)

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