Maltese Primary Language For 71.3% Of Locals

A recent survey titled ‘Stat tan-Nazzjon’ (State of the Nation’, conducted by Dr Vincent Marmara and Mr Lou Bondi, 71.3% of respondents said that the Maltese language is their primary language.

This is around 4 percentage points lower than 2023, when 75.4% considered Maltese their primary language.

Meanwhile, 7.6% of locals considered English their primary language, more than double of 2023 at 3.6%.

20.3% of locals consider both languages as their primary language, which is an approximately 1 percentage point increase from 2023 at 19.4%.

0.9% consider other languages to be their primary languages, a decrease from 2023 at 1.6%.

The survey interviewed 1,064 persons to gather the data.

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