Arabic vs Maltese! 

Maltese has some basic Arabic with a Latin accent and other European languages

Not even close. Maltese descends from Phoenician and it's not mutually intelligible with any Arabic dialect.

@@magnuscorbin5040 Lol Maltese descends from Arabic, not Phoenician. It’s not mutually intelligible because only 30% of its vocabulary is Arabic today.

@@Ahmed-pf3lg It does not. Nearly every semitic word in Maltese can be traced back to Phoenician.

@@magnuscorbin5040 every semitic word in maltese is literally Arabic bro lol Are u trolling?

It's amazing how close the languages are. I'm actually curious to learn your language.

Likewise! Yalla Malta 2024 inshaAllah! 😁

Amazing .... This is my first time to be introduced to Maltese language , it is just an Arabic with special dialect ... Great thanks for info. ...

I though friend is Habib or Habiba depending of gender, only one b in the middle.

Good to know!

Spot on, it's something I actually mention outside the video that Maltese comes from Sicilian Arabic, and that it's said that Malta was once part of Sicily but got detached.

​​@@LouisAgius1984yes Malta was conquered by Muslim at the time of Alagaliba ( a kingdom in Tunisia so it's the closest to Tunisian and other maghrabi dialects❤

@@zeyadyahya1180 Libyan and Tunisian dialects.

That is not quite correct. Maltese does come from the Semitic language spoken in Sicily and the Maltese people come from Sicily from the Agrigento region but Tunisian and other Maghrebi languages are younger as they have been altered by later Bedouin Arab arrivals and by diglossia with Standard Arabic. Maltese was not altered by the Banu Hilal and does not have a diglossia with Standard Arabic. So Maghrebi Arabic is descended from Maltese as Maltese is the older language.

To be honest, before I was doing my usual research for my trip to Malta (March 2024), I always thought Maltese is more like Gaelic or Welsh - more of a rarity these days: everyone speaking English and some the local language on top of it. I was pleasantly surprised that in Malta it's the exact opposite.

هذا من مظاهر الحقد الدفين الذي يكنه الخليجيين تجاه اهل المغرب الكبير. ⵜⴰⵎⵓⵣⵖⴰ

My late father-in-law, who was Maltese, said that Tunisians would understand him if he limited himself to words of Arabic origin. Maltese borrowed a lot from Sicilian, Italian and more recently English as well.

​@@rochedileoتحياتنا من المحيط العربي الى الخليج العربي......لا يوجد أهل حقد و بعض اكتر من أهل الخرافة التي ليسا لها وجود....

شلون يعني مقرة تونس؟ لا تألف عواصم الخلافات الاسلامية كانت طول عمرها في العراق ومصر وسوريا والسعودية فقط

@@rochedileo حقد ودفين كمان ههههههه والله احنا الخليجيين ما درينا عنكم. اصلا لا نعرف اي شي عن دول المغرب العربي وليس ضمن اهتماماتنا وبالكاد اي خليجي يروح على دول شمال افريقيا. قال حقد قال. لا ودفين كمان يعني مو بس حقد هههه

Nice!

Referring to a week as jumaa is well known in standard Arabic.

@@hishamhamed5033 is it? Any reference regarding this? I've never heard it in front formal Arabic

@@mahnas92 أحسنت قال الإمام أحمد في المسند: حَدَّثَنَا هَاشِمٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ ، حَدَّثَنَا سُهَيْلٌ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ : قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ : " لَا تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَتَقَارَبَ الزَّمَانُ فَتَكُونَ السَّنَةُ كَالشَّهْرِ، وَيَكُونَ الشَّهْرُ كَالْجُمُعَةِ، وَتَكُونَ الْجُمُعَةُ كَالْيَوْمِ، وَيَكُونَ الْيَوْمُ كَالسَّاعَةِ، وَتَكُونَ السَّاعَةُ كَاحْتِرَاقِ السَّعَفَةِ " الْخُوصَةُ، زَعَمَ سُهَيْلٌ.

@@mahnas92 من باب تسمية الكل بالجزء وهو باب واسع في العربية

I will tell you why the Maltese call Friday Gimgha. When the Muslims were in power, they had their main prayers on Friday, so it became Friday and the name for week.

It's actually 300 km away and Maltese is not mutually intelligible with any Arabic dialect.

اللغة المالطية 80بالمئة عربية ودولة الاغالبة عرب اخفاد الفاتحين في المغرب العربي

Yessir

@@الدنيةفانية-م6قلا تراهم بربر

North African languages are closer to Maltese. The Aghlabids didn't have much to do with Malta, more with Sicily. As long as they looked like they were following Islam and paying tribute, the Maltese were left alone.

Saħħa Amy, Maltin u kburin 😉

Mija fil-mija! 💓 (Kareem you should understand this too!)

@@amybriffa1073 Saħħa Amy

Thank you! Great to hear we have a worldwide community now, even reaching Malta! Thank you for the support and glad you're enjoying the content!

No it's based on Phoenician. The Arabic origin lie was pushed by Maltese politicians a couple of decades ago to establish a strong relationship with Libya. Sadly the myth stuck.

@@magnuscorbin5040Phoenician is an Arabic dialect

@@fadyalqaisy 🤣🤣🤣Phoenician is 2000 older than Arabic.

@@magnuscorbin5040 says who? Both languages are mutually intelligible, both retain the the semitic verb to be KN, and wherever Phoenician was spoken Arabic was also spoken 😅

@@fadyalqaisy 🤣🤣🤣 We WUZ all Araby!

In Maltese it's spelt as "tajjeb ħafna". The "ħ" sounds harsher than in most European languages, but less so than in Arabic. I know that you're writing the approximate pronunciation, but the funny thing about Maltese is that it is spelt using the Latin alphabet. With some diacritics, of course. Even though I don't speak or read it, the spelling is very straightforward.

@@SeverityOne hafna in tunisian dialect means much

Maltese descends from Punic not Arabic. Semitic =/= Arabic

Foreigners like you don't understand. Maltese comes from Sicily, spoken by Sicilians during the Muslim occupation and those Sicilians added their words to the language. Think about it, if a group of Egyptians were forced to speak a foreign language whether young or old they would eventally add words from their native language which is what has happened everywhere Muslim Arabians invaded whether Lebanon or Egypt or Morocco.

@@Ponto-zv9vf let me more clarify Maltese never spoke Latin as a mother Tong that way they speak more Arabic than Latin does the people of Malta speak carthaginian that's why when the Arab Conquest of Sicily and Mazda people of Malta keep their Arabic like the Sicily is not because they speak an Afro asiatic language black Egyptian and Lebanese is related to Arabic and that's why that's why easy they switch to Arabic because similar to their language

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Palestinian is nearer, Phoenicians cane from Palestine and spread the language there. Only Palestine and Malta say Essa for now

I know, right!!

its Tunisian xD

You are attributing too much to those Tunisians. Maltese did not come from Tunisia, it came from Sicily were it was the language used by the Muslim overlords. When the Sicilians learnt the language they didn't learn it properly, that's why Maltese has so many Sicilian and Italian words in it. All I can tell you is that I don't understand Tunisian at all, it is too foreign sounding with lots of throaty gutteral sounds. Standard Arabic is not understandable either but sounds nice, at least when spoken by someone other than the late Arafat. It is Jum not Juma, and X'ismek.

🤣🤣🤣 No they're not

Thanks!

je ne suis pas d'accord avec toi Le maltais est un mélange d'italien, de dialecte sicilien et de darija nord-africaine d'Algérie, de Libye, de Tunisie et du Maroc. La darija nord-africaine est un arabe mélangé à des mots étrangers provenant d'Italie, d'Espagne, de France et de langues berbères.

Maltese has loanwords from European languages ; so not surprising.

معليش معظمها كلمات عربية حتى لهجة التونسية عربية

Fi kairouan n9oulou Yena w shesmek w man9oulouch sabbela n9oulou shosha w 3al sghar n9oulou zoghzogh nahki 3la kairouan centre abban 3an jadd ki mchit el malta tesdamt kifech yahkiw nafs el kelmet hethom

لواه نطولو فيها آش اسمك احنا في تونس نقولو شيسمك كيما في المالطا

The first comment is a lie Hafna means handful in English In Tunisia they use the word كَمْشَةْ In Arabic they use. حَفْنة Therefore hafna is not a Tunisian word Les Algériens, les Libyens et les Marocains peuvent également bien parler et comprendre le maltais, en particulier les Libyens. En fait, les Libyens comprennent mieux la langue maltaise que les Tunisiens, car les Libyens peuvent comprendre de nombreux mots italiens utilisés dans la langue maltaise. La raison pour laquelle les Libyens parlent très bien le maltais est que la Libye a' été colonisée par l'Italie pendant de nombreuses décennies. J'ai visité Malte deux fois et rencontré de nombreux Libyens qui parlaient très bien le maltais. 52 % des mots maltais sont d'origine latine, résultat d'une influence importante de l'Italie (notamment de la Sicile) et, dans une moindre mesure, de la France.

Tu es un mytho Hafna means handful in Arabic In Tunisia they say. كَمْشَةْ In Arabic. From Arabic حَفْنة

We disagree slightly je ne suis pas d'accord avec toi Le maltais est un mélange d'italien, de dialecte sicilien et de darija nord-africaine d'Algérie, de Libye, de Tunisie et du Maroc. La darija nord-africaine est un arabe mélangé à des mots étrangers provenant d'Italie, d'Espagne, de France et de langues berbères.

@@magrebinoberbero Dites-vous « jim'aa » pour la semaine ? Parce que j'ai parlé à un Marocain et un Algérien et je leur ai dit (jim'aa). Ils pensaient que je parlais de vendredi.

@@njoumellil This is a complete lie Malta was under the Islamic Arabic empire who came from the Arabian peninsula and conquered north Africa, Sicily and Malta . This has nothing to do with Tunisia. North Africa region was called ancient libya then . Research ancient libya and you will find out that there was not a country called Tunisia at that time. There was Carthage which was a province of ancient libya. Look at the map of ancient Libya. Ancient Libya covered all the areas west of the Nile to the Atlantic ocean . Longue vie aux Imazighen d’Algérie, de Libye et du Maroc . Azul, tanmirt 🇩🇿🇱🇾🇲🇦🇩🇿💓

il est important d'être transparent et non biaisé et de mentionner que le maltais est également similaire aux dialectes algériens, libyens et marocains.

@@magrebinoberbero La langue maltaise est similaire aux dialectes du Maghreb, notamment au dialecte tunisien. Les Maltais admettent que leur langue ressemble plus au dialecte tunisien qu'aux autres dialectes. La langue maltaise est en fait similaire aux dialectes libyen, algérien et marocain, mais elle ressemble davantage au dialecte tunisien.

@@njoumellil I disagree with you completely You are an Arab and a Muslim The discussion has nothing to do with the Tunisian dialect . It is about the similarity between Maltese language and Arabic language which is spoken by all Arabic countries. Tunisian Arabic is what is locally spoken, not systematically or officially learned. Even presently in the school system in Tunisia, Tounsi is not taught. All students learn Standard Arabic . Arabic is the language that all literate speakers of Tunisia understand and can speak some of Classical Arabic, used in the Koran, has been considered the tree of which all spoken varieties of Arabic have branched out from, including Modern Standard Arabic. Tunisian children are taught to speak, read and write in classical Arabic. In Tunisia, people use Modern Standard Arabic widely .

No it was born out of Phoenician.

@@magnuscorbin5040 It was not

@@magnuscorbin5040Phoenician is Arabic

@@fadyalqaisy 🤣🤣🤣 Phoenician is 2000 years older than Arabic.

@@magnuscorbin5040 says who? Both languages are mutually intelligible, both retain the the semitic verb to be KN, and wherever Phoenician was spoken Arabic was also spoken 😅

je ne suis pas d'accord avec toi Le maltais est un mélange d'italien, de dialecte sicilien et de darija nord-africaine d'Algérie, de Libye, de Tunisie et du Maroc. La darija nord-africaine est un arabe mélangé à des mots étrangers provenant d'Italie, d'Espagne, de France et de langues berbères.

This is incorrect Maltese is mixture of Italian, Sicilian dialect and north African darija of Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco. North African darija is Arabic mixed with foreign words from Italy, Spain, France and Berber languages

the maltese language is a mixture of arabic and north African Darija arabic " Algeria, libya, Morocco and Tunisia " and italian language , especially the sicilian dialect . the exact percentage is as follows : italian and Sicilian 54 % Arabic 41% English 04 % others. 1% if you do not believe me, please research it.

@@magrebinoberbero Bro what did I say that was incorrect. The Tunisian arabic dialect is at the end of the day a variant of north african arabic dialects. I said it was similar to Maltese. Obviously there is other influences from sicillian (Siculo-Arabic) and english + romance languages. Do you just comment for the sake of commenting??

​@@nidaroon858 il est important d'être transparent et non biaisé et de mentionner que le maltais est également similaire aux dialectes algériens, libyens et marocains.

Nous sommes d'accord pour ne pas être d'accord. si nous parlons de la langue maltaise moderne parlée aujourd'hui, la source historique du vocabulaire maltais moderne est de 52 % d'italien/sicilien, 32 % de siculo-arabe et 6 % d'anglais, une partie du reste étant du français. nous avons de légères divergences sur la question du Darija nord-africain, les Tunisiens pensent que le maltais n'est similaire qu'au dialecte tunisien. Ceci est trompeur, car plus de 95 % des mots du dialecte tunisien sont en réalité des mots arabes, seule la prononciation est légèrement différente. Les Algériens, les Libyens et les Marocains peuvent également bien parler et comprendre le maltais, en particulier les Libyens. En fait, les Libyens comprennent mieux la langue maltaise que les Tunisiens, car les Libyens peuvent comprendre de nombreux mots italiens utilisés dans la langue maltaise. La raison pour laquelle les Libyens parlent très bien le maltais est que la Libye a' été colonisée par l'Italie pendant de nombreuses décennies. J'ai visité Malte deux fois et rencontré de nombreux Libyens qui parlaient très bien le maltais. 52 % des mots maltais sont d'origine latine, résultat d'une influence importante de l'Italie (notamment de la Sicile) et, dans une moindre mesure, de la France.

I do not agree the maltese language is a mixture of arabic and north African Darija arabic " Algeria, libya, Morocco and Tunisia " and italian language , especially the sicilian dialect . the exact percentage is as follows : italian 54 % Arabic 41% English 04 % others. 1% if you do not believe me, please research it.

Not in history the Normans came in to Sicily in 1061 Sicily shared the same history as the Maltese island until it was given to the knights of st John by king of Spain it was uninhabited for 2 century's it was unsafe place as it was often visited by pirates and lack of water. The knights found it difficult difficult to obtain water as well. The language derived from Sicilian as many of them settled there

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We agree to disagree je ne suis pas d'accord avec toi Le maltais est un mélange d'italien, de dialecte sicilien et de darija nord-africaine d'Algérie, de Libye, de Tunisie et du Maroc. La darija nord-africaine est un arabe mélangé à des mots étrangers provenant d'Italie, d'Espagne, de France et de langues berbères.