Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet in its standard form.
Its vocabulary is 52% Italian/Sicilian, 32% Siculo-Arabic, and 6% English, plus some French.
Romance language-speakers may easily understand complex ideas express in Maltese, such as "Geografikament, I-Ewropa hi parti tas-superkontinent ta l'Ewrasja" (Geographically, Europe is part of the supercontinent of Eurasio), while not understanding a single word of a simple sentence, such as "Ir-ragel quighed fid-dar" (The man is in the house), which would easily be understood by any Arabic speaker.
As if this weren't interesting enough, speakers code-switch with English, thus creating Minglish.
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