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  • They are Arab because they speak Arabic.

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  • They are Arabic-speaking Sicilians.

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  • Maltese should be considered a separate ethnicity from both Sicilians and Arabs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teutone View Post
    Malteste is a semitic language thats highly infuenced by english and partly italian, its by FACT not arabic.
    Considering its proper name is "Sicilian Arabic" (the Arabic spoken in Sicily in the Middle ages) and is part of the Tunisian dialect, yes it is. Maltese has more Classical Arabic lexicon than does Moroccan Arabic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jehan View Post
    I have been in malta and therefore have heard malteese speek.
    As I live in France, I had the luck to heard many time arabs.

    I can assure you the two language are differents.
    That's a terrible way of comparision. At least I can say that Turkish and Azerbaijani would sound very different to foreigners but we understand 90% of each other. Dialects might sound very different doesn't mean they are completely different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Considering its proper name is "Sicilian Arabic" (the Arabic spoken in Sicily in the Middle ages) and is part of the Tunisian dialect, yes it is. Maltese has more Classical Arabic lexicon than does Moroccan Arabic.
    a maltese can only understand like 1/4 of what a tunisian says.

    I can understand everything a norwegian or danish person says, so swedish is in fact norwegian i guess, or is it danish?

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    I have posted this argument before.

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    Maltese is like a distant dialect of middle age Arabic. This is a fact and Arabic speakers can vaugely understand some Maltese from what I've heard

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Considering its proper name is "Sicilian Arabic" (the Arabic spoken in Sicily in the Middle ages) and is part of the Tunisian dialect, yes it is. Maltese has more Classical Arabic lexicon than does Moroccan Arabic.
    If every semitic language is arabic, then hebrew is by your "logic" arab too.

    Maltese is not arabic, its a independent semtitic languange, and im 100% sure every lignuist agrees on that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maintenance View Post
    a maltese can only understand like 1/4 of what a tunisian says.

    I can understand everything a norwegian or danish person says, so swedish is in fact norwegian i guess, or is it danish?
    Same with Dutch for me.

    But Dutch is Dutch and German is German.

    Its the samle deal with Arabic and Maletese.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teutone View Post
    If every semitic language is arabic, then hebrew is by your "logic" arab too.

    Maltese is not arabic, its a independent semtitic languange, and im 100% sure every lignuist agrees on that.
    it's more like a hybrid language or semitic-romance language with outside influences like english.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teutone View Post
    If every semitic language is arabic, then hebrew is by your "logic" arab too.

    Maltese is not arabic, its a independent semtitic languange, and im 100% sure every lignuist agrees on that.
    It did evolve from Maghrebi Arabic though, although it does have a significant amount of Italian influence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language. The people themselves aren’t Arabic though
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dick View Post
    it's more like a hybrid language or semitic-romance language with outside influences like english.
    Well whatever, but its defenitely not Arabic.

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