Die taal van die Maltesers

Hoewel Engels dieselfde status as Maltees het, is laasgenoemde die taal van die mense wat aan daardie rots in die Middellandse see geanker is. Maltees is 'n Arabiese taal wat in Romeinse letters geskryf word.
                        Dit is wat www. omniglot.com verduidelik:
Maltese is a Central Semitic language spoken by about 420,000 people on the Mediterranean islands of Malta, Gozo (Għawdex) and Comino (Kemmuna). The Maltese language developed from the Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic, a form of Arabic that developed in Sicily and Malta between the 9th and 14th centuries. Siculo-Arabic was extinct in Sicily by about 1300, but continued to be spoken in Malta and evolved into Maltese. The first reference to Malta having a distinct language dates from 1364, and the language is first referred to as lingua maltensi in the will of a certain Pawlu Peregrino from 1436.

Hier is 'n paar voorbeelde van die taal op kennisgewings: