Colourful Boats in Harbour of Marsaxlokk, Malta at springtime. This small island in the Mediterranean is one of the closest to North Africa and has been a hotbed of conflict, colonization and military ...

What is the situation of the Maltese language today? Legally, the Maltese language has never been as strong as it is today. Not only is it the national language of Malta, with an officially appointed ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

A bronze bust honouring Ġużè Aquilina was unveiled in Munxar, paying tribute to one of Malta’s foremost scholars of the Maltese language. A native of Munxar, Prof. Aquilina was the first professor of ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...