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In literature, "The Maltese Cat" is the title of a 1895 short story (in the collection "The Day's Work") by Rudyard Kipling. [3] The story is about a polo match set in British colonial India, told from the point of view of one of the ponies, a gray named the Maltese Cat.
In a survey of Maltese cultural websites conducted in 2004 on behalf of the Maltese government, 12 of 13 were in English only and the remaining one was multilingual but did not include Maltese. [58] In 2011, only 6.5 per cent of Maltese internet users reported employing Maltese online, which may be a consequence of the lack of online support ...
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
The Maltese Bestiary: An illustrated guide to the mythical flora and fauna of the Maltese Islands is a 2014 compendium of legendary beasts from Maltese folklore.It showcases "supernatural entities, frightening creatures, magical plants, ancient gods and a host of other legendary beings" [1] all from the islands of Malta and Gozo.
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 ...
A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese. Volume I: Gozo. Leeds: B.S.J. Isserlin. Farrugia, Ruben. 2021. ‘The Acoustic Vowel Space of Gozitan Naduri and Sannati Dialects’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 197–211. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
The Journal de Malte, a newspaper which was published during the French occupation of Malta in 1798, is regarded as the predecessor of the Malta Government Gazette. [2] [3] After British rule was established in Malta in 1800, a number of newspapers were published by the government under different titles: Foglio d'Avvisi (1803–1804), L'Argo (1804), Il Cartaginese (1804–1805) and the ...
Il-Kantilena. Il-Kantilena is the oldest known literary text in the Maltese language. [1] It dates from the 15th century (no later than 1485, the death of its author, and probably from the 1470s), but was not found until 1966 by historians Godfrey Wettinger and Mikiel Fsadni.