NME also occurs in other small dogs, such as the Yorkshire Terrier, Maltese, and Chihuahua. Spiteri is of French, Maltese, Italian, Irish and German descent. Malta has two official languages&colon; Maltese and English. Other ethnicities include Genoese, Maltese, Portuguese, and German. Sicilian Italians were the first to colonise the Maltese islands. Malta is the largest of the three major islands that constitute the Maltese archipelago. Many French and other Europeans (Spanish, Italians, Maltese, and others) later settled in Algeria. Public schools tend to use both Maltese and English in a balanced manner. Kate Leone and Rosaria "Sara" Maltese. Her mascot was a pink Maltese named Budda. It uses a variant of a Maltese Cross. In 2006, he revealed he has a house on the Maltese island of Gozo. Gozo, Port Maltese, Rural Central Maltese, Rural East Maltese, Rural West Maltese, and Zurrieq. Rybak wrote a song for Maltese singer Franklin Calleja titled "Still Here". There are also two endemic species on the Maltese Islands.