Language code: mt
Technical information about ISO 639 language code mt
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The table below provides technical details for the Maltese language, designated by the mt code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
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| Standard | |
| Name | Official Maltese Native Malti |
| Family | Semitic |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Maltese (Main-Island Standard)Gozitan |
| Related languages | Tunisian ArabicLibyan ArabicAlgerian ArabicStandard Arabic |
| Key facts | The only living Semitic language that is normally written with the Latin alphabetDescends from medieval Siculo-Arabic spoken in Sicily and Malta around the 9th–13th centuriesAbout one-half of its vocabulary comes from Sicilian and Italian, with many newer borrowings from EnglishKeeps the Semitic root-and-pattern word-formation system despite heavy Romance influenceThe phoneme set includes emphatic consonants and a voiced pharyngeal fricative, features rare in European languages. |
| Sample phrase | Ħelow, kif inti? |
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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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- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
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- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ