The Gozitan dialects are rural dialects of
Maltese
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* Someone or something of, from, or related to Malta
* Maltese alphabet
* Maltese cuisine
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* Maltese language, the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people
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spoken in the island of
Gozo
Gozo ( ), known in classical antiquity, antiquity as Gaulos, is an island in the Malta#The Maltese archipelago, Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Republic of Malta. After the Malta Island, island of Malta ...
. The
vowel shift
A vowel shift is a systematic sound change in the pronunciation of the vowel sounds of a language.
The best-known example in the English language is the Great Vowel Shift, which began in the 15th century. The Greek language also underwent a v ...
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
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Gozo
Gozo ( ), known in classical antiquity, antiquity as Gaulos, is an island in the Malta#The Maltese archipelago, Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Republic of Malta. After the Malta Island, island of Malta ...
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Nadur Carnival
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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 University Publishing.
''Gwida''Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett.
* Klimiuk, Maciej. 2021. ‘
Language Questionnaire for Gozo, Malta’. ''
Folia Orientalia'' 58: 111–89
* Klimiuk, Maciej. 2022. ‘
Vowel Length in Maltese Dialects of Gozo’. In ''Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change'', edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 213–27. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
* Klimiuk, Maciej, and Ruben Farrugia. 2022. ‘
A Text in the Maltese Dialect of Sannat (Gozo) with Grammatical Remarks’. In ''Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change'', edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 381–96. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
* Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2019. ‘Dialectology in Practice: Notes from Fieldwork in Gozo’. In ''Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research'', edited by Werner Arnold and Maciej Klimiuk, 23–32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
* Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022a. ‘Fishing and Cyclone Cutting: A Text from the Area of Għasri within the Dialect Continuum of Gozo (Malta)’. ''Mediterranean Language Review'' 29: 19–52.
* Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022b. ‘
The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks’. ''The Israel Oriental Studies Annual'' 22: 145–77.
* Lipnicka, Maria. 2022. ‘
Pausal Diphthongisation in Gozitan Dialects Compared to Zaḥlé, Lebanon’. In ''Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change'', edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 229–41. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
Dialects of Maltese
Gozo
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