Maltralian

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Maltralian
Maltese cane workers in Queensland.
Native to	Australia
Ethnicity	Maltese Australians
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Pre-Hilalian[1] Sicilian Arabic Maltese Maltralian
Writing system	Maltese alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	mt-AU
Maltese people in Australia according to the 2011 census.

Maltralian (in Maltese: Il-Maltraljan) is the Maltese language of Australia, spoken by Maltese Australians in the country.

The development of the Maltese language in a country far removed from Malta continued, in an environment that maintained a sense of origin and culture.