Please make Duolingo add a Maltese course!


Please make Duolingo add a Maltese course!
The Issue
As a user of Duolingo since 2019, I have learnt 25* languages. I want to expand my knowledge of languages, and clearly you do too! I'm not asking for much, really. I just feel propelled to ask you, yes you, to reach our goal and to tell Duolingo 'Is it OK if we do this?'.
Along with Maltese, I would also like to learn and study Thai, Basque, Nahuatl, Belarusian, Slovak, and so much more!
*High Valyrian isn't a REAL language, so I omitted it who cares
Responding to comments
Evie Puknys - October 25, 2022
Actually, your argument is kind of fake news. Hawai'ian has around 24,000 speakers globally. Navajo is spoken by a total of 170,000 speakers. Yiddish has around a million. Welsh has 500,000 speakers. Scottish Gaelic has around a TENTH of that number. These 5 languages are endangered, and Duolingo is helping them evolve, in a way, by giving the opportunity for millions to pass it down. So it's not really unreasonable that the app has 3 conlangs and 1 dead language, and also 5 endangered languages.
Marion henderson - [DATE OF COMMENT NOT SPECIFIED]
Hi, Marion! It's happy to see that that are people in the world trying to save languages that deserve our help. This journey won't stop at Maltese and hasn't started at Maltese, because many other languages are dying by the minute and we need to save them as well. I hope at least one person could be inspired by this and say, 'You know what? Maybe I can make a difference!'. Let's prevent language death one by one!
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The Issue
As a user of Duolingo since 2019, I have learnt 25* languages. I want to expand my knowledge of languages, and clearly you do too! I'm not asking for much, really. I just feel propelled to ask you, yes you, to reach our goal and to tell Duolingo 'Is it OK if we do this?'.
Along with Maltese, I would also like to learn and study Thai, Basque, Nahuatl, Belarusian, Slovak, and so much more!
*High Valyrian isn't a REAL language, so I omitted it who cares
Responding to comments
Evie Puknys - October 25, 2022
Actually, your argument is kind of fake news. Hawai'ian has around 24,000 speakers globally. Navajo is spoken by a total of 170,000 speakers. Yiddish has around a million. Welsh has 500,000 speakers. Scottish Gaelic has around a TENTH of that number. These 5 languages are endangered, and Duolingo is helping them evolve, in a way, by giving the opportunity for millions to pass it down. So it's not really unreasonable that the app has 3 conlangs and 1 dead language, and also 5 endangered languages.
Marion henderson - [DATE OF COMMENT NOT SPECIFIED]
Hi, Marion! It's happy to see that that are people in the world trying to save languages that deserve our help. This journey won't stop at Maltese and hasn't started at Maltese, because many other languages are dying by the minute and we need to save them as well. I hope at least one person could be inspired by this and say, 'You know what? Maybe I can make a difference!'. Let's prevent language death one by one!
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Petition created on October 21, 2021