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Tesmaltese
Sundiame
Pronunciationka-tron-ski
Region Tesmaltin
 Pand Quelle
 Heiblinath
Native speakers
200,085,395 (2018)
L2: 10 million
Latin alphabet
Tesmaltese Braille
Official status
Official language in
 Tesmaltin
 European Union
Regulated byShuvet i Ezik
Language codes
ISO 639-3ktr
Linguasphere52-ABB

Tesmaltese is a Uralic language spoken by the Tesmaltese people of Tesmaltin. It is the national language of the country and also serves as an official language of the European Union,

Tesmaltese morphology has been deeply influenced by Hungarian, Arab and the Romance languages, namely Italian and Sicilian.

The Arabic base comprises around one-tenth of the Tesmaltese vocabulary, especially words that denote basic ideas and the function words, but about 75% of the vocabulary is derived from Hungarian and standard Italian, Sicilian and English make up between 6% and 20% of the vocabulary.