frontmatter 
title: "Maltese"
iso639_3: mlt
iso639_1: mt
ran: "5/3/en-7/it-6"
S: 5
M: 3
B_max: 7
ran_sum: 15
speakers: 570000
tags: [language]

Maltese

5/3/en-7/it-6

Maltese (ISO 639-3 mlt). In words: hundreds of thousands of fluent speakers; thousands of monolingual sentences; tens of millions of sentences parallel with English, millions of sentences parallel with Italian.

Score breakdown

ComponentDigitRaw countReads asTop corpus
Speakers (S)5570,000hundreds of thousands—
Monolingual (M)39,992thousands—
Bilingual · English (en)714,798,113tens of millionsNLLB
Bilingual · Italian (it)63,362,732millionsDGT

Benchmark performance

Published zero-shot results used to validate the notation (see the RAN Paper).

TaskBenchmarkMetricScore
MTNLLB-200 FLORESchrF++71.7
Note

EU language

Sources

  • Wikidata: Q9166
  • Counts use the sources this site applies consistently (see the overview) — Ethnologue (speakers), OSCAR 23.01 (monolingual), OPUS (bilingual) — except where this page's notes record a different source. The top corpus for each bilingual partner is shown in the breakdown above.

See the RAN overview for how scores are computed and what they mean.

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