Tesmaltese
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| Tesmaltese | |
|---|---|
| Sundiame | |
| Pronunciation | ka-tron-ski |
| Region |  Tesmaltin Pand Quelle Heiblinath |
Native speakers | 200,085,395 (2018) L2: 10 million |
Uralic
| |
| Latin (Tesmaltese alphabet) Tesmaltese Braille Old Hungarian script | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Tesmaltin European Union |
| Regulated by | Shuvet i Ezik |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ktr |
| Linguasphere | 52-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.