Re: Maltese Phonology

J Y S Czhang wrote:

>     Talking of Maltese... Are there any links (linguistic ones, not web)
> 'tween Maltese and Lingua Franca/Sabir???
I wonder.  It might be hard to tell because the Romance input to
Lingua Franca are also the languages of the various groups Malta has
hosted in its history.  Judeo-Tunisian Arabic has (in a lexicon of
5,000 words) 15% Romance vocabulary, and some of this is certainly
Lingua Franca in origin.  Why not Maltese?

>     And is there any worthwhile links (web, not purely linguistics) about
> Lingua Franca/Sabir???
Check out http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html which is the best
site I can think of off the top of my head.

Cheers,
Eamon
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