• Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic (Arabic: اللَّهْجَة الْعَرَبِيَّة الصِّقِلِّيَّة, romanized: al-lahja l-ʿarabiyya ṣ-ṣiqilliyya) is the term used for varieties...
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    Afroasiatic language of the European Union. Maltese is a Latinised variety of spoken historical Arabic through its descent from Siculo-Arabic, which developed...
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    and major urban dialects of Arabic. Maltese, a highly divergent Siculo-Arabic language descended from Maghrebi Arabic is also provided. True pronunciations...
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  • the extinct forms of Andalusi Arabic and Siculo-Arabic. The Maltese language is believed to have its source in a language spoken in Muslim Sicily that...
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    Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] or عَرَبِيّ, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic...
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    last Islamic state in Iberia at Granada in 1492. Siculo-Arabic (or Sicilian Arabic) was a spoken language on the islands of Sicily and neighbouring Malta...
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    Arabic is also closely related to Maltese, which is a separate language that descended from Tunisian and Siculo-Arabic. Maltese and Tunisian Arabic have...
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    the 17th century in Valencia. Spain portal Languages portal Varieties of Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Siculo-Arabic Aljamiado Andalusi Romance «La lengua de la...
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    distinctive local variety of Arabic, Siculo-Arabic (at present extinct in Sicily but surviving as the Maltese language). Its influence is noticeable...
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    have been repopulated by settlers from Sicily and Calabria who spoke Siculo-Arabic. Previous inhabitants of the islands – Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines –...
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    Province of Catania (category Articles containing Siculo Arabic-language text)
    comuni (sg.: comune) in the province. Metropolitan City of Catania From Siculo-Arabic وَلاية walāya, with the administrative meaning of "province"; also used...
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    people, and one of the official languages of Malta and the European Union. It is a Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic; however, a majority of vocabulary...
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    in the non-Arabic-speaking Muslim world. The Maltese language is a descendant of the extinct Siculo-Arabic, a variety of Maghrebi Arabic formerly spoken...
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    Arabization (redirect from Arabicized)
    Maltese language derives. By contrast, the present-day Sicilian language, which is an Italo-Dalmatian Romance language, retains very little Siculo-Arabic, with...
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  • Buttigieg (category Articles containing Siculo Arabic-language text)
    Buttiġieġ [bʊtːɪˈd͡ʒɪːt͡ʃ] ) is a Maltese surname, derived from Sicilian Arabic أبو الدجاج Abu-d-dajāj, meaning 'chicken owner, poulterer' (literally 'father...
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  • daughter language of Siculo-Arabic, which is a daughter language of Old Arabic, which is a daughter language of Proto-Semitic, which is a daughter language of...
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    Three valli of Sicily (category Articles containing Siculo Arabic-language text)
    or vallo (plural: valli) can be traced back to Siculo Arabic: وَلاية, romanized: wālāya (based on Arabic: وَلِيّ, romanized: wālī), with the administrative...
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    Malta (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    text shall prevail." Maltese is a Semitic language descended from the now extinct Sicilian-Arabic (Siculo-Arabic) dialect (from southern Italy) that developed...
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    Sicilia) also known as the Siculo-Lombard dialects, (Italian: Dialetti siculo-lombardi) is a group of Gallo-Italic languages found in about 15 isolated...
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    Inshallah (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    both languages. A similar expression exists in Maltese: jekk Alla jrid ("if God wills it"). Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic, the Arabic dialect...
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    Tunisian is closely related to the Maltese language, that descended from Tunisian and Siculo-Arabic. Berber languages (called "shelha" by Arabs) are mainly...
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  • Maltese alphabet (category Articles containing Maltese-language text)
    digraphs. It is used to write the Maltese language, which evolved from the otherwise extinct Siculo-Arabic dialect, as a result of 800 years of independent...
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    linguistics has proved that Maltese is in fact derived from Arabic, probably Siculo-Arabic specifically, with a large number of loanwords from Italian...
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  • Code" (PDF). Retrieved 19 April 2024. Siculo Arabic is the term used for the variety (or varieties) of Arabic spoken in Sicily under the Arabs and then...
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    "Norman French" is sometimes also used to describe the administrative languages of Anglo-Norman and Law French used in England. For the most part, the...
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  • Iranian, and Berber languages. Yemeni Arabic has Modern South Arabian, Old South Arabian and Himyaritic substrata. Typically, Creole languages have multiple...
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    have been found in the extinct Sicanian language. Except for names, they have not been translated, and the language is unclassified due to lack of data....
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  • mixture of Tahitian and Old Rapa. Siculo-Arbëresh as spoken in Sicily may possibly be classed as a mixed language, as it is largely mixed Sicilian and...
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    Elymian is the extinct language of the ancient Elymian people of western Sicily. Its characteristics are little known because of the extremely limited...
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    a dialect of the Aramaic language, the local or dominant languages of the regions Jews migrated to, and later Judeo-Arabic, Judaeo-Spanish, Yiddish,...
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