What I enjoy about these Maltese ghannejja (folklore singers) is their rich Maltese and what they succeed to do with the language. Their language is far more real, neater and rooted than any Maltese that one is likely to hear being said or see being written in almost all media today.
My husband who studied Maltese informs me that Maltese is not a mixture of Latin and Arabic since the Maltese never took to Latin though they had come under Roman dominion at about 216 BC during the Second Punic War, given that in the gospels St. Paul was met by Maltese of those times who were termed BARBARIANS, meaning that they spoke neither Greek nor Latin. In fact Maltese is, he told me, basically Arabic and SUPERSTRUCTURALLY, romantic, the romantic element coming not in any way directly from Latin but through Latin languages, such as Italian, especially Sicilian. Example: BASIC: METAL : = FIDDA (ARABIC) but GOLDSMITH not FIDDIER but ARGENTIER from Italian ARGENTO. And so it goes.
What I enjoy about these Maltese ghannejja (folklore singers) is their rich Maltese and what they succeed to do with the language. Their language is far more real, neater and rooted than any Maltese that one is likely to hear being said or see being written in almost all media today.
Ghana malti sabih wisq
memorja Sabiha ta sehibna john laus
YES
yes.
Rip laus
yes
My husband who studied Maltese informs me that Maltese is not a mixture of Latin and Arabic since the Maltese never took to Latin though they had come under Roman dominion at about 216 BC during the Second Punic War, given that in the gospels St. Paul was met by Maltese of those times who were termed BARBARIANS, meaning that they spoke neither Greek nor Latin. In fact Maltese is, he told me, basically Arabic and SUPERSTRUCTURALLY, romantic, the romantic element coming not in any way directly from Latin but through Latin languages, such as Italian, especially Sicilian. Example: BASIC: METAL : = FIDDA (ARABIC) but GOLDSMITH not FIDDIER but ARGENTIER from Italian ARGENTO. And so it goes.
@MrAhmedmaazouzi maltese language is a mixture of latin and arabic
@MrAhmedmaazouzi yes it does
il-Malti is the only Arabic dialect to become a language over time. Do you know otherwise?