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Gozitan Dialects
The Gozitan dialects are rural dialects of Maltese spoken in the island of Gozo. The vowel shift of *''ā'' (phonologically ''a'') to ''o'' or ''u'' is their main differentiating trait. Vocabulary Comparison of some words in Standard Maltese and in the Gozitan dialects: See also * Gozo * Nadur Carnival * Languages of Malta Malta has three official languages : Maltese, Maltese Sign Language and English. Maltese is the national language. Until 1934, Italian was also an official language in Malta, and in the 19th and 20th centuries there was a linguistic and poli ... References Further reading * Aquilina, Joseph, and B.S.J. Isserlin. 1981. ''A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese. Volume I: Gozo''. Leeds: B.S.J. Isserlin. * Farrugia, Ruben. 2021. ‘ The Acoustic Vowel Space of Gozitan Naduri and Sannati Dialects’. In ''Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change'', edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 197–211. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malta
Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Sicily and North Africa. It consists of an archipelago south of Italy, east of Tunisia, and north of Libya. The two official languages are Maltese language, Maltese and English language, English. The country's capital is Valletta, which is the smallest capital city in the EU by both area and population. It was also the first World Heritage Site, World Heritage City in Europe to become a European Capital of Culture in 2018. With a population of about 542,000 over an area of , Malta is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, tenth-smallest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population density, ninth-most densely populated. Various sources consider the country to consist of a single urban region, for which it is often described as a city-state. Malta has been inhabited since at least 6500 BC, during the Mesolith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |