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 ...

Award-winning novelist, playwright and educator Lina Brockdorff, a leading figure in Maltese literature and a lifelong advocate for the Maltese language, has died at the age of 95, her family has ...

A popular Tiktok creator who makes videos about the Maltese language insists there is room for both Maltese and English in the media and in conversation. Kurt Meli, a 25-year-old freelance interpreter ...

A conference in Maltese entitled Il-Malti f’Politika Lingwistika Nazzjonali (The Role of Maltese in a National Language Policy) will be held on Saturday, May 3. It will discuss the role of the ...

One of Malta’s few Maltese-language educational apps for children is celebrating its second anniversary with a major content update designed to boost kids’ vocabulary and language skills in engaging ...

A financial grant of €70,000 from the Ministry for Inclusion and Volunteering has supported the creation of a course in Maltese Sign Language, the government said. The course has been launched ...