Bonġu!
say it: “BON-joo”
Maltese
in its own words: Malti
- Speakers
- 550 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Afroasiatic – Semitic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Malta
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Malta
Fun fact
Maltese is the only Semitic official language of the EU and is written in the Latin alphabet. Its grammar is Semitic, but much of its vocabulary comes from Italian, Sicilian and English.