[ebb_earl_co]

What is the name of Maltese in Maltese? Like “el español” in Spanish, it’s neat to know what languages call themselves

[kwk1]

A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym

[ggsp]

Wikipedia says it's "Malti"

[arbuge]

Il-Malti to be precise. Il- means "the" and changes its meaning to that of the language. Malti alone would mean a Maltese person.

Source: I'm also Maltese.

[jll29]

The "Il" in Il-Malti is like "al" in Arabic, which Maltese is closely related to as was pointed out above.

Arabic (language): al-‘arabiyyah (الْعَرَبِيَّة).

[kridsdale3]

'ish' is a pretty universal english suffix. So Spanish is just "españ-ish".