Re: Maltese Phonology

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> J Y S Czhang scripsit:
>
> >     Talking of Maltese... Are there any links (linguistic ones, not
> web)
> > 'tween Maltese and Lingua Franca/Sabir???
>
> Probably not.  The Romance loans in Maltese are basically from Sicilian,
> and
> don't have the characteristic marks of LF (verbs in the infinitive,
> adjectives
> in the masculine contrary not only to conventional but even to natural
> gender).
>
> >     And is there any worthwhile links (web, not purely linguistics)
> about
> > Lingua Franca/Sabir???
>
> http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html is the leading site, I
> believe.
> It's interesting that the Ethnologue lists one of the alternative names
> of
> LF as "Ferenghi".
Reminds me. I saw "Ferengistan" as a name of France somewhere, in a Middle
East context I believe. Looks vaguely Turkish to me. Does anybody recognize it?

                                                             Andreas

PS I can find the Middle East and the Far East easy enough, but where is the
Near East hiding? The Balkans?

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