Re: Merhaba (was: Re: Icelandic)
| From: | Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 11, 2004, 5:37 |
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--- Joe <joe@...> scrievit:
> Trebor Jung wrote:
>
> >Merhaba!
> >
> >*nearly falls off chair in surprise; totally
> shocked*
> >
> >Maltese is _not_ a dialect of Arabic - it's a
> separate language! That's like
> >saying Estonian and Finnish are dialects...
> >
> >I just can't believe this... Maltese a dialect
> of Arabic (or anything else)?
> >Just totally unbelievable...
> >
> >
> >
> I think it's quite a reasonable statement.
> They've only diverged since
> the middle ages. It's more like saying Scots
> is a dialect of English.
I know more Scots than Maltese or Arabic. If the
situation is comparable (keeping in mind that
English began diverging from Scots a little
sooner), then I think it safe to say that Maltese
is a language!
If we must insist that Scots is a dialect, then
it is a dialect that is only barely
understandable to a speaker of the language it is
suppsed to be a mere dialect of!
Padraic.
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