Re: CHAT: Maltese orthography (was Re: CHAT: The EU expands [...])

From: "Steg Belsky" <draqonfayir@...>

> > http://www.omniglot.com/writing/maltese.htm
> > "Maltese writing is essentialy latin with some dots on top"
> > (Don't quote me on that one ;-)
> Cool, i love how they spell |ayn| with |G|+|double-barred-H|!
It's a single-barred h; maybe the blur in the gif confused you (if you're
not going to use clean antialiasing, don't use it at all!). And I don't like
it myself. It's the only digraph in the language, and it has no consonant
sound; it's a vowel modifier. Why not just put a circumflex on the vowel
like Tamazight does?

Still, I think I'm going to study this language. I already am learning
Arabic (off and on). Notice you have a lot of short-vowel syncopation,
common to most North African Arabic dialects (Moroccan *really* reduces its
vowels). And is it just me or does Maltese seem to tend towards being
polysynthetic?

And I love that word _waqqfu_.

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