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Joseph (Ġużè) Aquilina (7 April 1911 – 8 August 1997) was a
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author and
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born in
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.


Education

Aquilina graduated first as
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and later as a lawyer from the
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. Between 1937 and 1940 he read comparative Semitic
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at the
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, where he obtained a
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. In 1937 Ġużè Aquilina was appointed as the first professor of Maltese and oriental languages at the University of Malta, where he contributed in a significant manner towards the study and strengthening of the
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. It was only in 1934, three years before his appointment, that the Maltese language had been declared the official language of Malta.


Career

Among the prominent posts which Aquilina held as a full-time professor at the University of Malta, was that as Dean of the Faculty of Arts. Aquilina's numerous works include novels, philosophical essays, critical studies, drama, linguistic papers and religious books, his ''
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'' being a ''Maltese–English Dictionary''.


Partial bibliography

* ''Teach Yourself Maltese''. Teach Yourself Books, Hodder & Stoughton, London 1965; 6th impression 1985 *
A Comparative Dictionary of Maltese Proverbs
', 1972 *
Papers in Maltese Linguistics
'. University of Malta * ''A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese'' (jointly with B.S. Isserlin), Gozo/Leeds 1981 . * ''Twemmin u Ħajja'' Faith and Life" 1984 * ''Maltese–English Dictionary'', I-II, Midsea Books Ltd, Malta, 1987–1990, 1,673 pages


See also

*
List of essayists This is a list of essayists—people notable for their essay An essay ( ) is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a Letter (message), letter, a term paper ...
*
List of linguists A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics). Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interprete ...
* List of Maltese people *
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