Re: 2 Things: One Interesting, One Not

Peter Clark scripsit:

> One little nit: is Maltese really a linguistic isolate? I had always assumed
> that it was related to Arabic.
It is either a dialect of Arabic or a daughter language of Arabic,
depending on your definitions.  (Chadic Arabic is about as remote
from Modern Standard Arabic as Maltese is, but nobody calls it a
separate language.)

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