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Hi, I'm Maltese. I thought it would be fun to make a thread about the history of my little island nation.
Malta has a very interesting history, like you wouldn't believe. But I cannot just write a manuscript in the OP.
Just ask me questions and I'll do my best to answer.
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>>3097667
Can Maltese people understand Arabic?
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>>3097679
No.
It's like a Dutch person trying to understand Swedish. You can sort of understand some words due to similarities but you cannot comprehend a conversation.
And Arabic is a actually not one language. Moroccans speak something very different from Egyptians.
Our language was derived from a dialect of Arabic that is now dead but it was probably closer to Tunisian/Libyan Arabic.
What can we understand? Very old words. Example: numbers, and nouns for very mundane things like a door or a house or a daughter or a father...etc
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>>3097707
Search for Mazorabic Chant on jewtube, can ya understand it?
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>>3097667
How well does the movie Final Justice depict Malta?
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>>3097940
No. Just very few religious themed words and I think all of Latin origin.
Also the problem is that the pronunciation of the modern Arabic word vs. Maltese word is very different. Pretty much only the numbers are pronounced in a somewhat easily recognizable way.
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>>3097954
>Final Justice
Never seen it. Watched the trailer. Doesn't seem to depict anything related to Malta.
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