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Key facts
- Australia
- 198,996
- Canada
- 41,920
- United states
- 40,820 (2016)
- United kingdom
- 40,230 , (Maltese-born)
- Italy
- 31,000
- South africa
- 1,000
- Germany
- 1,000
- Turkey
- ~1,000–2,000
- Tunisia
- < 200 (many resettled in Malta after the 1950s)
- Brazil
- 132 (2025)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human population
- Named after
- Malta
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Country
- Malta
- Located in
- Malta
- Country of origin
- Malta
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- topic's main category
- Category:Maltese people
- Commons category
- People of Malta
- female form of label
- Maltežanka
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Encyclopedic overview
The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic with a substantial Romance superstratum, and share a common Maltese history and culture characterised by Latin Catholicism, which remains the state religion. Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean Sea, is an archipelago that also includes an island of the same name together with the islands of Gozo (Maltese: Għawdex) and Comino (Maltese: Kemmuna); people of Gozo, Gozitans (Maltese: Għawdxin) are considered a subgroup of the Maltese.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maltese people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.