|
|
Malta
Official languages: Maltese, English
|
|
|
Demographics of Malta
The resident population of Malta, which includes foreigners residing in Malta for at least a year, as of November 27, 2005 was estimated at 404,039.
Malta has seen emigration of a large portion of their people to live elsewhere, and Maltese communities exist throughout Europe (esp. Maltese laborers who relocated in Italy, Spain, Germany, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Greece and the United Kingdom), while larger Maltese immigrant communities are in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Gibraltar, the United States and to a smaller extant, Puerto Rico.
Languages
The official languages of Malta are Maltese (90.2%) and English (6%). Italian is spoken by the majority of the population as a second language today. The Eurobarometer states that 100% of the population speaks Maltese, 88% speaks English, 66% speaks Italian, and 17% speaks French, rendering the country one of the most pan-linguistically fluent in the European Union. However, public opinion on what language they "preferred" to use was different, with 86% of the population having preference for Maltese, 12% for English, and 2% Italian.
Maltese National Institutions for Language
Il-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-llsien Malti
(National Council for the Maltese Language)
Il-Ministeru tal-Edukazzjoni
Uffiċċju 109, Triq l-Assedju l-Kbir
Il-Furjana VLT 2000
Malta
Manwel Mifsud, President (manwel.mifsud@um.edu.mt)
Ray Fabri, Representative Member (ray.fabri@um.edu.mt)
kunsilltalmalti@gov.mt
|
|
|
|
|
