Maltese (IS IT ARABIC?!)

Basically it is Tunisian with Italian and English words

Maltese is 80 percent arabic polluted with italian.

Is "dinja" pronounced as a raised front vowel, separate from Arabic "dunya", only because it was probably a front rounded vowel at some point, possibly "dünya?"

Love it I’m from KSA
I never would believe such a smart people like you. Thank you sir you are amazing

I'm Moroccan and the first time I heard Maltese, I had to recheck the title of the video I was watching.

Neglecting to mention Libyan Arabic as a maghrebi dialect but also the dialect with the most italian influence as Libya was an italian colony is so confusing

teez means ass in arabic ..so malteses is ass backwards arabic 😅😅😅😅

Shukran.

Its not only Tunisian,, its a Levantine dialect so something between Tunisian and Lebanese

Knight finished islam from region but language still exist

Very cool language, i like this and the Sardiniain language

It’s essentially a fusion of Arabic and Italian with Arabic making up the vast bulk of that fusion!

Sounds like Portuguese for me 😮

It's not Italian substrate. It's Sicilian substrate!

No it is chocolate

Dort wurde doch auch der berühmte Malteser Orden gegründet, der aus dem Johanniter Orden hervorging. Heute sind sie vor allem als Sanitäter tätig, sowohl die Johanniter in Deutschland, als auch die Malteser auf Malta

The US Secretary of Transportation is Maltese (Peter Buttigieg)

Do one for Georgian and one for Armenian

Vocabulary does NOT make a language a hybrid!!! The basic vocabulary and grammar is based on Arabic so it is at its core a Semetic language.

What is 'turn the ship over to make a public house'' in Maltese? [C19th.]

Maltese is classified as a Semitic language, it's not Indo-European.

No

guragigna ( the only semetic languag spoken in south ethiopia because of migration from Eriteria at the end of Aksumite empire)

close to 50.000 subscribers :) .. that's quite funny. Watching this in 2023 and you reached almost 1.5 Million subscribers! Nice job

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I hope Malta (and numerous other unique places) can preserve its unique identity and language against immigration (seems to be very tax friendly) from both continents. Small national as well as regional languages often have a hard time surviving in a more and more globalized world. We need to appreciate the regional quirks everywhere and don't turn everything into a copy of American and West European large cities.

I believe it's 2/3 arabic not 1/3

You said that "two years of French at Malta". Actually it was a good deal than that, because while the official language of the island was Italian, the majority of the Kinghts of St. Johns were French noblemen.

Such a beautiful language, me gustaría visitar allí una vez

very nice thanx

I'm from Sicily (Catania). Maltese sounds pretty unique and indeed arabic. You see tons of italian-english words but still, it's not possible to crack the code when they speak. Knowing sicilian doesnt help at all, as sicilian is a volgar latin language. Malta has kept a great deal of arabic while sicily didn't, for the fact that sicily has been colonized by normans settlers (and their allies). Plus, the sicilian cultural bond is distinctively southern-italian and the (quite short) arabic invasion didn't cut this link. The understanding between italian and maltese is however good, as maltese are educated to master ITA-ENG. An italian will find no problem to get around in Malta, and a Maltese will find italian not difficult at all.

Your channel is amazing! Thanks for creating this interesting and unique content. As an English/Arabic/French/Spanish speaker, Maltese seems quite understandable.

I'm Brazilian and I'm learning English and Italian, when I hear it's look like a mix of Italian and Portuguese Portuguese has words like Italian almost the same 😅 interested

teezek hilwa ya malteezeya

I'm native Arabic speaker and I can Easley understand 78%from🇲🇹،I wish Malta join to Arabs league, to become first arab contry in Europe

A very simular situation influenced ge'ez

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I am really happy that you made a video about this very unique language!!! Thanks for it! Maltese sounds me absolutely like a music. It has a perfect combination of arabic and italian, 2 very very very different languages 😂😂😂
So amazing the history of it!!

It's a peculiar darija in fact.

corrections: arabic and italian. Semitic.

Thanks for your explanation. I am watching a Maltsese film at the moment. I am finding the sound of the language fascinating. I can hear the different components of arabic italian but I cannot understand them. Really interesting to learn that a semetic language is written in a latin script.

Maltese seems the language that is most recently modified
4 languages to produce more advanced language

I just returned from Malta this morning - what a nice trip! I am currently studying Arabic in university. I was excited that I understood so much of the Maltese language. It was easy to read and I could pick out many Arabic and Italian words that I already knew.

Do you know the tale of the Italian man who went to Malta?

My mum is Maltese I will finally visit Malta next year and would love to learn the language!

So fascinating!! Thank you!

it's not a language, where is their vocabularies, schools, universities? it's just a dialect, an ignorant one, they belong or belonged to England. pirates, and they climbed high, funny world