One of our receptionists was Maltese and she would have taken great exception to Malti being called Arabic. She would have lectured you at great length about it being a Latinised version of Arabic. The alphabet is very similar to a Latin one in fact. She was about 5ft tall and seemed to grow about a foot when arguing!I love Malta having had several fly 'n flop holidays at Golden Sands.
Most of the place names are Arabic so not at all pronouncable or memorable, I think thats why I liked G S
As you can tell, I have not forgotten my lecture.