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It's not at all far removed from the North African dialects of arabic which is the dialect that it's derived from. Tunisians and Algerians can understand Maltes
by findyoucef 11mo ago
It's not at all far removed from the North African dialects of arabic which is the dialect that it's derived from. Tunisians and Algerians can understand Maltese quite well.
- arbuge 11mo ago> Tunisians and Algerians can understand Maltese quite well. Not in my experience. Not at all actually. My experience with Arabic speakers is that they think they're understanding when you speak Maltese, because it sounds kind of familiar, but in actual fact they're not understanding much at all. Which is not surprising after a thousand years of divergence.
- findyoucef 11mo agoWell well these Arabic speakers Tunisians and Algerians?