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False. The majority of words in Maltese are of Italian/Sicilian origin, and has a lower rate of Quranic Arabic roots than Lebanese Arabic:
An analysis of the etymology of the 41,000 words in Aquilina's Maltese-English Dictionary shows that 32.41% are of Arabic origin, 52.46% are from Sicilian and Italian, and 6.12% are from English.Żammit (2000) found that 40% of a sample of 1,820 Quranic Arabic roots were found in Maltese, a lower percentage than found in Moroccan (58%) and Lebanese Arabic (72%).[40]
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Technically speaking they're as arab as syrians are, but they're not interegrated to the Arab world at all. I still think they share more with Italians than with anyone else, but they definitely are closer to arabs than to most Europeans.
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No. The same reason why I don't consider French/English-speaking Africans as French/British. Plus, Maltese people are just classified as a Semitic group not Arab.
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its depends in what sense are they Arab:
linguistically: yes, the base/core of the language is Arabic, I guess from that point of view they are as Arabic as the English are German
culturally: definitely NOT, they represent everything the Arabs do not; they helped Western Europe in their fight against the Turks, who themselves were very much Arabic influenced, culturally Maltese are everything BUT Arabs, although the architecture of their houses may beg to differ
genetically: NOT, some influence cant be ruled out as the islands aren't big and practically anyone that came and stayed has left their mark but they seem most similar to Southern Italians
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