::I disagree, Angr is being extremely rational and giving contructive input. I cannot accept 210's version. Noone has said that Malteses semitic status is controversial. Mori doesn't say that Maltese is a creole (which is a specific kind of mixed language under the strict definition thereof) but a creoloid meaning that it looks like a creole but it isn't - specifically Moris conclusion is the same as Bonnicis namely that Maltese is neither nor but somewhere in between. The "semiromance" material is not notable - it is simply someones humourous take on english language history it is completely inadmissible as a scholarly source on maltese. As a comment to Angr i hold that Mori and Rosner do cite some kinds of morphological influence from Italian in Maltese (an -i plural morpheme among other things) but Mori admits that this is not sufficient to classify it as a mixed language or creole, whereas Rosner doesn't qualify his statement.