- Maltese only became the official language of Malta in 1934.
- According to the National Survey of 2021, 97% of people in Malta consider Maltese their mother tongue.
- Only two songs exclusively in Maltese have participated on the Eurovision Song Contest stage: Marija l-Maltija by Joe Grech and L-imħabba by Helen Micallef and Joe Cutajar.
- Għ used to represent two sounds which have disappeared from contemporary Maltese but still exist in Arabic: 'ayn (ع) and ghayn (غ).
- The oldest known piece of literature in Maltese is il-Kantilena, written by Pietro Kaxaro in the 15th century.
- Maltese became an official language of the European Union in 2004 and is still the only official Semitic language of the Union.
- The official language regulator for Maltese is il-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ilsien Malti.
- Maltese belongs to the same linguistic family as Arabic and Hebrew.
- A significant minority of the population in Gibraltar during the late 1800s spoke Maltese.
- The Maltese version of Wikipedia has over 5,500 articles.
- One of Italy's most famous singer-songwriters, Claudio Baglioni, released a cover of a well-known Maltese song, L-Aħħar Bidwi F'Wied L-Għasel in 2008.
- There is a Centre for the Maltese Language at the University of Bremen in Germany.
- According to the Malta Skills Survey of 2022, 99.2% of Maltese citizens know Maltese.
- According to the 2021 United Kingdom Census, 1,490 people consider Maltese their main language.
- According to the 2021 Australian Census, 26,555 people speak Maltese at home.
- There are 30 letters in the Maltese alphabet.
- There are around 500,000 people who speak Maltese .
- The Maltese surname Buttiġieġ means chicken owner.
- There are different varieties of Maltese in Malta with their own specific characteristics.
- The BBC World Service had a Maltese -language service from 1940 to 1981.
- Although Maltese is a Semitic language, it has borrowed words from Romance languages (Sicilian, Italian & French) and from English.
- Mikiel Anton Vassalli published the first Maltese dictionary in 1796.
- Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis published the first grammar of the Maltese language in 1750. He also wrote the first dictionary in the mid-1700s, but it was not published.
- The Maltese language is frequently code-switched with English.
- Due to the rich linguistic history of Maltese , the language has many Romance / Semitic synonyms.
- One of the ways to say good morning in Maltese , bonġu, comes from French. The other is l-għodwa t-tajba, which derives from Arabic.
- One of the ways to say good evening in Maltese , bonswa, comes from French. The other is il-lejla t-tajba, which derives from Arabic.
- Malta's public broadcaster, TVM, mainly broadcasts in Maltese .
- There are two daily newspapers in Maltese : L-Orizzont and In-Nazzjon.
- According to the National Survey of 2021, 97% of people in Malta consider Maltese their mother tongue.
- According to the National Survey of 2021, 75% of people in Malta speak only Maltese to their children.
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