" L-Innu Malti " ( in English: The Maltese Hymn ) is the national anthem of Malta.

* Maltese ( Malti ) Salve Reġina

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.

* Maltese sometimes uses diacritics on some vowels to indicate stress or long vowels, but this is restricted to pronunciation assistance in dictionaries.

In Maltese the word is L-Għid, where " Għ " stands for the common Semitic consonant Ayin, and is directly derived from Arabic ʿĪd, which in both cases means " festival ".

The Basque language of the western Pyrenees is an isolate unrelated to any other group, while Maltese is the only Semitic language in Europe with national language status.

A Spanish / Maltese false friend is guapo / a and gwapp / a respectively.

Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.

According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:

* 1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.

Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic ( the Arabic dialect that developed in Sicily, and later in Malta, between the end of the ninth century and the end of the thirteenth century ).

About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).

In 1436, in the will of a certain Pawlu Peregrino, Maltese is first identified as lingua maltensi.

The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.

This is the oldest example of printed Maltese.

Thousands of Maltese emigrants in Australia, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, and the United States still speak the language, and in 2007 it was reported that Maltese is still spoken by descendants of Maltese immigrants in Tunisia.

Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, that in the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian and Italian, to a lesser extent French, and more recently English.

Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

There is also a display of Maltese silverware from the national collection, including liturgical artifacts from churches that formerly belonged to the Order, as well as a collection of silver snuffboxes amongst other silverware.

The Maltese national flag is unique in bearing a decoration from another country, in this case the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ( although flags like those of Fiji and Tuvalu retain a number of elements from the colonial era ).

Frequent national calamities – including loss of property, forced labour and enslavement – suffered by the Maltese from the 9th century through to the early 16th century due to piracy and raids of their islands, primarily at the hands of Muslims ( Hafsids of North Africa and Turkish corsairs ) had a profound effect on Maltese culture.

When he decided to make Maltese the medium of his creativity he poetically explored the history of Malta to confirm its cultural and national identity.

The former Maltese national hospital, St. Luke's, is located in Tal-Pietà, as well as the University of Malta Medical School.

The most significant example is the traditional Maltese fenkata ( eating stewed rabbit ), often identified as the national dish, quite possibly started off as a form of symbolic resistance to the hunting restrictions imposed by the Knights of St John.

The Maltese cross, also known as the Amalfi cross, is identified as the symbol of an order of Christian warriors known as the Knights Hospitaller or Knights of Malta, and through them came to be identified with the Mediterranean island of Malta, of which it is a national symbol.

The Maltese cross is a national symbol of Malta and is displayed as part of the Maltese civil ensign.

The game was played to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first international match played by the Maltese national team.

In May 2010, sponsorship of the Maltese national side was taken on by sportswear firm Givova, who also designed a range of new kits for the team.

On 7 September 2007, Cute won the Maltese national final with a total of 82 points and represented Malta in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007.

The Maltese language is the national language of Malta.

Maltese only is recognised as " national " in Chapter 1 of the Laws of Malta.

In the past he served as Chairman of the Maltese national airline, Air Malta.

Ciantar argues that these songs evoke the very roots of Maltese poetry and literature, a claim that is also supported by ‘ Dun ’ Karm Psaila, Malta ’ s national poet.

The ground is also used by the Maltese national rugby team.

Mark Vella Tomlin ( January 7, 1959-July 10, 2009 ), a Maltese national, worked as an airline pilot with Medavia between 1993 and July 2008 when he stopped working for health reasons.

Season 2010 / 11 saw Qormi retaining Stefan Giglio and Matthew Bartolo, and acquiring the services of George Mallia, Belgian Jason Vandelannoite, Nigerian Abubakar Bello-Osagie, South Korean Kang Ho-Jung in the first half of the season, and Brazilian Josue, Greek Christos Karamanolis, Guinea-Bissau Ibraima Sumaila Vaz Sani, and most notably, the Maltese national football team captain Michael Mifsud, in the second half of the season.

The association runs the national football team, as well as administering the Maltese Football League and the Maltese Cup for club sides.

The oldest reference to Maltese comes from the Benedictine monks of Catania, who were unable to open a monastery in Malta, in 1364, because they could not understand the native language.

In his Mundus Subterraneus he says of the Maltese, " they speak the purest form of Arabic, corrupted by neither Italian nor any other language.

" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

Maltese became an official language of Malta in 1934, alongside English, when Italian was dropped from official use.

The Maltese language has historically been classified in various ways, with some claiming that the ancient Punic language was the base of the language, instead of Siculo-Arabic, while others believed the language to be Berber, and under Fascist Italy, it was considered a dialect of Italian.

Malta has two official languages -- Maltese ( a Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic and heavily influenced by Sicilian and Italian ), and English.

* the word used for feces in Maltese language

In the Maltese language, due to its Siculo-Arabic origin, Sunday is called " Il-Ħadd ," a corruption of " wieħed " meaning " one.

Works in the Maltese language are also displayed.

Of his many works, the earliest, published in 1810, entitled Versuch über die maltesische Sprache, was a successful refutation of the current opinion that the modern Maltese language was of Punic origin.