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 ...

A Swedish woman who learnt fluent Maltese in just 16 months is looking into how bilingual islanders use the two official languages in different contexts and how this links to their memory, attention ...

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 ...

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 ...

A living language is one that changes slowly with the times. A dead language is one that had been overcome by overpowering dominant influences. As someone who has witnessed the Maltese language ...

Maltese remains the prevalent language used at home by students attending both state schools and church schools, but this is definitely not the case among students attending independent private ...

About one-third of the words in the Maltese language are derived from Arabic that was spoken by Muslim settlers of the Mediterranean islands When Christians in Malta go to church, they pray to “Allah.