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The Maltese (Maltese: Maltin) people are an ethnic group native to Malta who speak Maltese, a Semitic language and share a common culture and Maltese history.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 ...
Andrea Ashworth (born 1969) – English author; of Italian-Maltese descent; Peppi Azzopardi (born 1959) – television presenter; Ruth Baldacchino – LGBT activist; O. J. Borg (born 1979) – English radio and television personality; of Maltese descent; Angelik Caruana – alleged Marian visionary; Adelaide Conroy (fl 1871–1879), photographer
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It is separate from the local dialect of English, which is also called Maltese English. Both Maltese and English are official languages in Malta, and about 88% of the Maltese people can speak English as a second language. [1] Various Maltese social groups switch back and forth between the two languages, or macaronically mix lexical aspects of ...
Maltese may refer to: Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta; Maltese alphabet; Maltese cuisine; Maltese culture; Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people; Maltese people, people from Malta or of Maltese descent
Maltese leaders presented the main island to Sir Alexander Ball, asking that the island become a British Dominion. The Maltese people created a Declaration of Rights in which they agreed to come "under the protection and sovereignty of the King of the free people, His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland". The ...
The 2001 UK Census recorded 30,178 Maltese-born people resident in the UK. [5] The Office for National Statistics estimates that the equivalent figure for 2009 was 28,000. [ 6 ] By contrast, there were 46,998 Maltese-born residents recorded by the 2001 Australian Census , 9,525 by the 2001 Canadian Census and the 9,080 by the 2000 United States ...
The majority of Americans of Maltese descent continued to live in the same cities where immigration had taken place, particularly Detroit (approximately 44,000 Maltese) and New York City (more than 20,000 Maltese); in the latter, most of the people of Maltese origin are concentrated in Astoria, Queens. San Francisco and Chicago also have ...