Some local people find spoken and sung Maltese distasteful, since it is reminiscent of Arabic, while being quite distinct from it in intonation and vocabulary. An Arab can learn how to speak Maltese ...

The majority of the population still consider Maltese to be their first language, a survey has revealed. The survey was carried out by the National Council for the Maltese Language and the Department ...

And when we speak, knowing that the listener understands both Maltese and English, we tend to pronounce the first word that comes to mind, be it Maltese or English. Very few people are aware of how ...

In a recent interview on Xtra, you argued that the Maltese language is currently facing a crisis. Given that a recent Eurobarometer estimated that Maltese is in fact spoken by over 90% of the ...

The way we speak is not the way we write, and good writers often find themselves in difficulty when they are asked to deliver an impromptu speech. But, as you rightly point out in your leader Language ...

IT MAY seem surprising that a dialect of Arabic is an official language of the European Union. But travel 90km south of Sicily and the odd-sounding language of the EU’s smallest state, Malta, is ...