Languages of Malta | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Languages of Malta


00:01:40 1 Maltese
00:02:49 2 English
00:03:59 3 French
00:04:34 4 Italian and Sicilian
00:06:32 5 Greek
00:07:01 6 Latin
00:07:22 7 Maltese Sign Language
00:07:36 8 Foreign languages
00:08:37 9 Media
00:08:45 9.1 Publications
00:09:21 9.2 Radio
00:09:52 9.3 Television
00:10:20 9.4 Online usage of Maltese language
00:10:49 10 Future
00:11:27 11 See also



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SUMMARY
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Malta has two official languages: Maltese and English. Maltese is the national language. Until 1934, Italian was also an official language in Malta.  The country having been governed by many different countries in the past, the Maltese population is generally able to converse in languages which are not native to the country, namely English and Italian. 
According to the Eurobarometer poll conducted in 2012, 98% of Maltese people can speak Maltese, 88% can speak English, 66% can speak Italian, and more than 17% speak French. This shows a recent increase in fluency in languages, since in 1995, only 98% of the population spoke Maltese, 76% English, 36% Italian, and 10% French. Surprisingly, it also shows an increase in Italian fluency compared to when Italian was an official language of Malta.According to the 2011 census, there were 377,952 people aged 10 and over, of whom 357,692 people (94.7%) declared they spoke Maltese at least at an average level, 248,570 (82.1%) declared they spoke English at least at an average level and 93,401 (43.7%) declared they spoke Italian at least at an average level, out of a scale made of "Well", "Average", "A little" and "Not at all". French, Russian and Spanish are the other main languages studied in secondary and tertiary education.