@@mariabezzina3292 Are Maltese people proud of their language? I read that all of Sicily spoke some kind of Arabic, like Maltese, during Middle Ages. I think English is a loser language because it should be like Dutch, but English is kidnapped by French.😢
I have a friend from Malta (im from Israel) and i have started learning maltese, and its quite interesting how many languages are included in that one language.
@@CheLanguages את האמת שהמילים שדומות לעברית הן אלו שנלקחו מהשפה הערבית. אבל אם יש לך ידע בסיסי בערבית/אנגלית/כמעט כל שפה אירופאית אחרת, אז הבנת מלטית לא תהיה מסובכת מדי.
Yes, I didn't mention it because I was struggling to get all the info into the short but there are several dialects. I had to mention the Australian dialect though because that's too good to skip over!
As an Arab, I can understand many many words in Maltese. However, many words leave me baffled and I have no idea what they mean. Hence, I can get the gist of a paragraph in Maltese.
Interesting i have Maltese family history going back 5 generations and my DNA is only 1% Arabic a lot lower than the amount of Arabic in the Maltese language. The French took over for a short while but not long enough to do any damage to the language. British helped us learn English making assimilation in other countries a lot easier.
It's from Arabic al, the resemblance to Italian il is coincidental. Maltese also features sun and moon consonants like Arabic, with the definite article changing to represent this: il-gżira (the island) but ix-xemx (the sun).
Centuries of swapping between empires. The only reason it speaks an Arabic derived language in the first place is because of the Arab empires bringing it there, Arabic was also spoken on Sicilia once and Maltese is the last living remnant of that Arabic language on Sicilia today (Siculo-Arabic)
Yeah, that's a conlang waiting to happen! I'd love to see a reverse of it, a Romance language heavily influenced by Semitic vocabulary, if history went differently that might have happened on Sicilia. Again, another conlang waiting to happen
I'm making something like that, but it's more an artlang cause I don't use real masterplan of soundchanges, only a vage global aproach of fictional sound and other changes and lots of semmitic loans from hebrew and semitic hybride words, and arabic and a tiny bit of syrian,
@@martinkullberg6718 what do you mean by artlang? And I presume by Syrian you're referring to Syriac Aramaic? It's just called Syrian in Hebrew too (סורית)
It's not that there's Arabic influence in Maltese, but rather that Maltese is dervied from Arabic itself. The foreign influence is the Italian, whereas the base language is Maghrebi Arabic, making it a hybrid
Because when the Normans re-conqured their country, they exiled all arabs (moors) and abolished arabic. However they didn't do that in Malta because it wasn't important. So much so, that a little later it was gifted to the Knights of St John.
Why you lie? You didn't say the most important feature about it which is being similar to north african dialect. As an Algerian I can understand maltese without even studying it once.
