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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57005| Title: | The Island adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday : the life and strange surprising adventures of the Maltese language |
| Other Titles: | Insularity. Small Worlds in Linguistic, Social and Cultural Perspectives |
| Authors: | Fabri, Ray |
| Keywords: | Maltese language -- History Maltese language -- Arabic influences Maltese language -- Foreign elements -- English Maltese language -- Foreign elements -- Italian Maltese language -- Foreign elements -- Arabic |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Publisher: | Königshausen & Neumann |
| Citation: | Fabri, R. (2015). The Island adventures of Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday: the life and strange surprising adventures of the Maltese language. In R. Heimrath & A. Kremer (Eds.), Insularity. Small Worlds in Linguistic, Social and Cultural Perspectives (pp. 45-62). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. |
| Abstract: | The islands of Malta and Gozo display a complex language situation involving Maltese and English as the main protagonists. Maltese, a language born out of Arabic, has gone through many changes throughout its history and has survived as the Modern Maltese variety we now speak. It is currently undergoing sometimes subtle and sometimes nor-so-subtle changes, especially under the influence of English. At the same rime, the English spoken in Malta has also developed and changed via the influence of Maltese, so that one can speak of a local variety, Malta-English. The language situation in Malta and relation between the two languages will be discussed in some detail in this essay. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/57005 |
| ISBN: | 9783826055409 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - InsLin |
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