Why do they speak a dialect of Arabic in Malta? are they descended

Maltese are basically Christian Arabs.

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>>2420112
The Islamic emirate of Sicily was based , but they were relatively short lived and have been gone for centuries. Why would this supposed nation of Catholics speak the language of their "enemies"?

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>>2420122
are they though? they look like Greco-Italians like Siciliy

>>2420128
I imagine the genetics in Malta must be crazy

>>2420162
you could say the same for a lot of Mediterranean countries

>>2420128
I've met two maltans in my life they basically looked like Arabs with very pale skin and dirty blonde hair (it was kinky like Arabs) I dunno if they represent the norm

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>>2420122
pretty much all Maltese people i've met are obsessively anti-Islam. Is it just denial?

>>2420290
You don't Understand. They've had a very traumatic history with the Muslims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Siege_of_Malta

I've met some Maltese people before. From my experience it's not a /pol/ tier thing about ethnicity, it's a religious thing. They can't really deny their linguistic and ethnic origins, that would be absurd.

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>>2420301
Its odd that people that originated as Muslim -if that is the case- would spend so much effort in resisting Islam for a religion that was supposedly forced onto them. kind of like the opposite of pic related.

>>2420290
Islam is not synonyms with Arab, nor Arab synonyms with Islam. Also I understand Maltese to be a Semitic language but not a dialect of Arab. Making OP incorrect t

>>2420317
They didn't originate as Muslims, there were a shit ton of different influences. Malta changed hands relatively quickly and continuously. Bosnia is different, different circumstances that allowed the Muslim population to exist to this very day. The type of Islam they practice though, it's very lax.

>>2420335
>Also I understand Maltese to be a Semitic language but not a dialect of Arab

Not exaclty arabic, but it was derived directly from Sicilo-Arabic , not its own independent branch and certainly not from Hebrew .

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>>2420348
>They didn't originate as Muslims, there were a shit ton of different influences. Malta changed hands relatively quickly and continuously.

this is what makes the most sense, actually.
I guess the real question is, why did they stick with Arabic long after the Saracens were expelled from Sicily and Arabic was not longer an important language outside of ME/NA

>>2420364
>About half of the vocabulary is derived from standard Italian and Sicilian;[7] English words make up between 6% and 20% of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates.[8] The original Semitic base (Siculo-Arabic) comprises around one-third of the Maltese vocabulary, and typically includes words that denote basic ideas and the function words.[9] Maltese has always been written in the Latin script, the earliest surviving example dating from the late Middle Ages.[10]

It's a mutt language basically. It's just how languages develop, it's not like they're going to learn a new language en mass because of some religious connection. Another example with the Balkans is the Turkish/Persian loanwords and so on.

>>2420377
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>>2420210
t. Fingol