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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Maltese
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Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 22:40:35 GMT
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In article <3pnk23$3i2@imp.demon.co.uk> ahmad@arafa.demon.co.uk writes:
 > I appologise, I missed the begining of this thread. I was always
 > curious about Maltese. If you understand Arabic and a little Italian,
 > you can make out the gist of Maltese speech.

I think so.

 >                                              What other languages
 > (other than Arabic) are in there ?

I consists mainly of an Arabic basis with an high number of Italian
loans and also quite a few English loans.
 > 
 > Is Maltese a written language ? Does it follow the grammatical style
 > of Arabic or of the Latin languages ?
 > 
It is written with the Latin script.  It follows the grammatical style
of Arabic.
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