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Maltese alphabet and characters

The Maltese alphabet should display only the following characters. If your document is not showing correctly, then first check that the encoding for that program and font supports Latin script.

Lower-case characters:

Maltese alphabet

Upper-case characters

Maltese grammar rules

Nouns

Maltese nouns inflect for gender, number, case and (in)definiteness.

Plural forms of nouns are not sensitive to gender distinctions. For a small group of nouns there is also a residual dual number. Some nouns have paradigm of five numbers.

Verbs

Maltese formatting rules

Date formats

Short date format	d/M/yy
	e.g. 24/3/16
Long date format	d ta‘ MMMM, yyyy
	e.g. 17 ta‘ Marzu, 2011

Numbers and measurements

Decimal separator	. (period)
	e.g. 11.50
Thousand separator	, (comma)
	e.g. 2,000, not 2 000
Five and more digit numbers format	split into groups of three from the right using comma
	e.g. 20,000.00 not 20 000,00
Measurement units	non-breaking space
	e.g. 1 cm, not 1cm 39 ˚C, not 39˚C exception: 10%, not 10 %
Percentage	No space is added between the % sign and the amount
Spanish currency name	euro
Currency symbol	€
Currency symbol position	located before the number
	e.g. €100.50

Maltese capitalisation usage

Should be capitalised

People’s names.
Languages and geographical names (of countries, counties/states, cities etc.).
The first letter of adjectives deriving from topographic names, as well as adjectives deriving from names of movements, organizations and religions should be capitalised.
Headings/titles: only the first word is capitalised unless a proper noun is featured.
The first letter of abbreviated titles is always capitalized.
Days and months, names of nations/nationals are always capitalised.
If the first word in the English source string is capitalised, the corresponding first word in the target language should also be capitalised. If the word in the English source string is not capitalised, the corresponding first word in the target language should also not be capitalised, unless language-specific rules specify different capitalisation.
The general rules for capitalisation in Maltese phrases and sentences closely follow those for English.

Should NOT be capitalised

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