The history of Malta is pretty interesting. Once it was a country full of Arabs from Morocco speaking some Arabic dialect, then the Italians came and were like ''fuck you guys, I don't want to be close to a Muslim country'' and crusaded the whole place, turned their Arabic script into Latin and brought in a lot of Italian influences into their language.
Then the French came and did the same, and at last the British.
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Well, sucks to be them
And still the muslims remain there mashallah
first of all they wuz Tunisian not Moroccan that's why Maltese language look like Tunisian
second they were berbers not araps
*cough* 1565 *cough*
You forget that that happened after the island was depopulated by muslim raiders and slavers and resetled by muzzues.
The Italians did not kill them off and replaced them in comparison.
Also Suleiman the great ignored the promise hus father made towards the knights to leave them be.
lol 2,6% is muslim
I remember it was Maghrebi dialect? I'm sure Maghreb is a city in Morocco
just look at those maltese they are browner than us
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maghreb is tunisia algeria and morocco
only tunisian can understand maltese though
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Earliest settlers came from Sicily.
Something or someone wiped them off.
Sicilians came again.
Phoenicia colonized us.
Carthage happened.
Roman republic took us in the Punic wars.
After the Empire split, we were with the West part.
Shit happened and became part of the Byzantine Empire.
Arabs conquered us.
Normans took us back.
Somehow we were then under Aragona.
Malta given to the Knights.
Knights lost the islands to the French.
Maltese rebelled and with the help of the Britihs, the French were defeated.
Gave ourselves to the British Empire.
Declared independence from the Empire.
Independent.
Gave ourselves to the EU.
not 100% as I am no expert, but it is a start.
Interesting language
>Somehow we were then under Aragona.
>Malta given to the Knights.
Malta wasofficially part of the kingdom of the 2 sicilies, but they rent it to the knights because of muh religion.
indeed.
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I forgot that after napoleon seized it, the eternal anglo refused to give it back to sicily because of muh naval base
maltese is like tunisian
tunisian isn't arapic
maltese isn't arapic
True. The Brits also did their best to erase any Italian identity we had. They removed Italian from being an official language and replaced it with English and Maltese. prior to the British time, Maltese was a peasant language.
>Once it was a country full of Arabs from Morocco speaking some Arabic dialect
"was"
Indeed, the language (in our case) is Semitic, but the people and culture, well some people are of Arabic descent, no one can deny it but there is nothing Arabic about our culture.
Look who's talking.
So basically you are like nice boipucci in prison who gets traded around for packs of cigarettes?
at least we don't speak arabic anymore
i mean even in the dialect
tunisian dialect is 60% arabic word and 40% french and amazigh but even the pronounctuation and the conjugaison of the arab words are amazigh and used in different meaning than arabic words
we have hardly any arabic culture even the people arabs are very small minority
It is because of our strategic place in the Mediterranean sea. And our size.
In that case our vocabulary is estimated to be of half Sicilian/Italian origin.
we have many italien words too