Our Maltese language or dialect is at a crossroads. Since the Middle Ages and the early 20th century, it has come down to us as a mixed language: Semitic (medieval Arabic, probably with a ...

Francesca Mifsud has put her finger on an acute language problem on the Maltese islands. Despite frequent polling that shows that bilingual Malta is a predominantly Maltese-speaking society – well ...

The Maltese language is simply not there in the vast majority of our online consumption. We still have not taken seriously enough the predicament of the Maltese language in the digital world.

Foreign universities require a pass in their “native language” because lectures are carried out in the language of that State. In Malta, very few subjects are taught in Maltese.

But travel 90km south of Sicily and the odd-sounding language of the EU’s smallest state, Malta, is exactly that. With some 450,000 native speakers, Maltese was granted official status in 2004 ...

Maltese is an extraordinary language. Like this Mediterranean island nation’s food and culture, it is a fusion of the influences that have passed this way in the last millennium – and there ...

Maltese Language Courses provided by Queen Mary University of London, Malta Campus The official languages of Malta are Maltese and English, both of which are spoken fluently by the majority of the ...

More than 85% said they believed the Maltese language is becoming too contaminated by other languages, especially English. Majority speak English at work ...

The study is based on interviews with 15 such non-EU migrants following the ‘I Belong’ Maltese-language integration programme. Participants aged between 26 and 45 hailed from 10 different countries ...

Mr Mark Bonello from the Maltese Language Teachers Association of Victoria speaks with Joe Axiaq about the need of Maltese Language Teachers to teach Maltese at a primary and secondary level with ...