Maltese language | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/12/2018

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Maltese language


00:01:49 1 History
00:04:05 2 Demographics
00:05:10 3 Classification
00:06:10 4 Dialects
00:07:18 5 Phonology
00:07:27 5.1 Consonants
00:09:00 5.2 Vowels
00:09:24 5.3 Stress
00:09:59 5.4 Historical phonology
00:10:14 6 Orthography
00:10:23 6.1 Alphabet
00:11:58 6.2 Written Maltese
00:12:58 6.3 Sample
00:13:10 7 Vocabulary
00:14:22 7.1 Romance
00:15:58 7.2 Siculo-Arabic
00:17:50 7.3 English
00:18:48 8 Grammar
00:19:07 8.1 Adjectives and adverbs
00:19:38 8.2 Nouns
00:20:58 8.3 Article
00:22:25 8.4 Verbs
00:23:07 9 Media
00:24:10 10 Code-switching
00:24:30 11 See also



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Maltese (Maltese: Malti) is the national language of Malta and a co-official language of the country alongside English, while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic, the extinct variety of Arabic that developed in Sicily and was later introduced to Malta, between the end of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth century AD.Maltese has evolved independently of Literary Arabic and its varieties into a standardized language over the past 800 years in a gradual process of Latinisation. Maltese is therefore considered an exceptional descendant of Arabic that has no diglossic relationship with Standard Arabic or Classical Arabic, and is classified separately from the Arabic macrolanguage. Maltese is also unique among Semitic languages since its morphology has been deeply influenced by Romance languages, namely Italian and Sicilian.The original Semitic base (Siculo-Arabic) comprises around one-third of the Maltese vocabulary, especially words that denote basic ideas and the function words, but about half of the vocabulary is derived from standard Italian and Sicilian; and English words make up between 6% and 20% of the vocabulary. A recent study shows that, in terms of basic everyday language, speakers of Maltese are able to understand less than a third of what is said to them in Tunisian Arabic, which is related to Siculo-Arabic, whereas speakers of Tunisian are able to understand about 40% of what is said to them in Maltese. This reported level of asymmetric intelligibility is considerably lower than the mutual intelligibility found between Arabic dialects.Maltese has always been written in the Latin script, the earliest surviving example dating from the late Middle Ages. It remains the only  standardized Semitic language written in the Latin script.