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External Websites
- CORE - Maltese
- L-Università ta' Malta - Library - Maltese: blending Semitic, Romance and Germanic lexemes
- National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Maltese as a merger of two worlds: A cross-language approach to phonotactic classification
- Academia - Maltese as a second language : learning challenges and suggested teaching strategies
- Omniglot - Maltese (Malti)
Also known as: Malti language
Maltese language, Semitic language of the Southern Central group spoken on the island of Malta. Maltese developed from a dialect of Arabic and is closely related to the western Arabic dialects of Algeria and Tunisia. Strongly influenced by the Sicilian language (spoken in Sicily), Maltese is the only form of Arabic to be written in the Latin alphabet.