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	Maltese Collections: Overviews of the Collections (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		Maltese was primarily an oral language through the end of the 19th century, with little printed in it before the 20th century.
		It was only in 1924 that the Maltese alphabet was standardized, and another ten years passed before Maltese became an official language, joining English in that status.
		The important Maltese literary journal Malti (or Il-Malti) began in the 1920s under the direction of Ghaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti (the Union of Maltese Writers) and was edited from the late 1920s until 1942 by Dun Karm, Malta's national poet.
	www.loc.gov /rr/european/coll/malt.html (1668 words)

	Phoenician Alphabet
		The Phoenician alphabetic script of 22 letters was used at Byblos as early as the 15th century B.C. This method of writing, later adopted by the Greeks, is the ancestor of the modern Roman alphabet.
		All the European alphabets are descendants of the Phoenician, and all the Asiatic alphabets are descendants of the Aramaic variants of the Phoenician.
		Phoenician alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek alphabet and, hence, of all Western alphabets.
	phoenicia.org /alphabet.html (3277 words)

	Phenicians of Malta and their Language
		A genetic study of modern Maltese poves that half of them carry Phoenician genetic identifiers and their language seems to be very close to the Lebanese language.
		Maltese has glottal sound for the letter "Q" which resembles neither the Arabic, nor the European sounds for its equivalent (which are more akin to our 'k' sound), but is rather like the sound produced by a 'silent cough'.
		Attributing the roots of Maltese words exclusively to Arabic is wrong especially since both Phoenician and Arabic have the same Semitic word roots and it is impossible to conclude that a Maltese word that sounds like a similar Arabic word necessarily comes from Arabic and not from Phoenician.
	phoenicia.org /maltese.html (2360 words)

	Maltese language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Maltese is a Semitic language spoken by about 350,000 people on the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo.
		Today Maltese is used in most sectors of public life, including parliament, the church, the press and other media, and in general conversation.
		The first Maltese language was a catechism by F. Wizzino, and was published in 1752.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/maltese.htm (343 words)

	Maltese Media Landscape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The development of the Maltese mediascape is marked by five characteristics: the importance of the institutions, the fall and rise of public service media especially radio, the bilingual colonial heritage of the country, the David and Goliath syndrome and the giving of a new dimension to Malta's oral culture.
		The Maltese watch all other stations that reach the country terrestrially, through the cable system or by means of satellite for 30% of their TV watching time (Vassallo, 2002b).
		Maltese politicians spearheaded the struggle for freedom of the press as part of their struggle for a greater freedom from the British colonialisers.
	www.ejc.nl /jr/emland/malta.html (7923 words)

	Maltese - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Maltese, breed of very small toy dog of obscure origin that was widely popular in Europe by the beginning of the 19th cent.
		The Maltese is probably an ancient breed; dogs closely resembling the modern type were kept as lap dogs in Rome and Greece before the Christian era.
		The Maltese Janus: Frances Ebejer and his drama.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-maltese.html (288 words)

	BBC Education - Languages
		Maltese is a modern Semitic language closely related to the western Arabic dialects.
		Maltese is spoken by almost 400,000 people in Malta and Gozo, and some 100,000 in Australia, the US, Canada, Italy and the UK.
		It is estimated that, at present, the origin of Maltese words is 40% Semitic, 40% Romance (Italian) and 20% English.
	www.bbc.co.uk /languages/european_languages/languages/maltese.shtml (265 words)

	Maltese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maltese is the national language of Malta, and an official language of the European Union.
		Apart from its phonology, Maltese bears considerable similarity to urban varieties of Tunisian Arabic and other North African Arabic dialects, however in the course of history, the language has adopted numerous loanwords, phonetic and phonological features, and even some grammatical patterns, from Italian, Sicilian, and English.
		Maltese vocabulary is a hybrid based on a foundation of Arabic Semitic roots with a heavy borrowing of Sicilian, Italian, and English loanwords.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maltese_language (1192 words)

	MALTESE STUDIES
		What is practically certain is that the Maltese were cut off from the mainstream of spoken Arabic and so, within the space of a few decades after 1048, a process must have began by which the Arabic dialect would gradually become an independent branch of Semitic.
		It was only in 1924 that the Maltese alphabet was standardised, and another ten years had to pass before the language was officially recognised as the language of the Maltese people.
		In 1921 the Society of Maltese Authors was born and this gave added impetus to the movement for the use and recognition of the language as a valid literary medium.
	www.aboutmalta.com /grazio/study2.html (1262 words)

	Learn Maltese Language - Free Conversational Maltese Lessons Online - Common Maltese Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		The Phrasebase website is the ultimate environment allowing you to read an Maltese Alphabet based phonetic spelling of common and useful everyday phrases in effort to memorize it and it's meaning.
		Maltese Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/maltese.php (1866 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about Malta
		Maltese has also been heavily influenced by Romance languages and is written in a variety of the Latin alphabet.
		The Maltese government is intending to adopt the euro as the country's currency on 1 January 2008, having entered ERM II in May 2005.
		The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet, but uses the diacritically altered letters, which are unique to Maltese.
	www.quicknation.com /Malta.htm (2159 words)

	Maltese Grammar
		Following is a sampler of the variety of plural patterns encountered in Maltese.
		The negative "not" in a statement is translated in Maltese by the particle "ma" ("m" before a vowel, "h" or "gh") used before a verb in the present or perfect, to which is appended the particle "x" (short for xejn = nothing).
		In Maltese the conditional (expressed in English by would / should + verb) is conveyed by "kieku" (if) or "jekk" (if) followed by the Perfect or Present forms of the verb.
	aboutmalta.com /grazio/maltesegrammar.html (2665 words)

	Malta
		Maltese claim little knowledge of or are ambivalent about the northern Africans who contributed the foundation of their language, however.
		Maltese culture defines correct behavior and comportment in a variety of ways depending on status, familiarity, age, and social connections.
		Face-saving behavior is important in Maltese society, not only because of decorum and for the sake of maintaining the respect of individuals, but also to protect the honor of families.
	www.everyculture.com /Ma-Ni/Malta.html (3335 words)

	Maltese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The official languages of Malta are Maltese and English.
		Maltese (Malti) is a unique language with many words borrowed from the languages of the various countries that once occupied Malta.
		The Maltese language is the only Semitic tongue officially written in the Latin alphabet.
	www.flw.com /languages/maltese.htm (88 words)

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		Maltese Language - If you wish to learn Maltese or simply learn about the structure of the Maltese Language this is the section for you.
		A recent study conducted by Maltalinks Search Engine found that only 0.56% of Maltese websites are written in Maltese while 98.7% are written in English (Retrieved on December 19, 2002 from www.maltalinks.com).
		For the purpose of this study a Maltese website was defined as a website containing information about Malta or one that was created by Maltese persons.
	www.lycos.com /info/maltese--maltese-language.html (423 words)

	Edge Translation
		The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet.
		Maltese is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
		The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of some letters with diacritic marks.
	www.edgetranslation.net /maltese1.htm (155 words)

	The Malta Independent Online
		The Maltese version of XP goes beyond simple “desktop” dressing that is only the desktop icons are changed, but a lot of effort has been made to offer a fully-functional operating system in the Maltese language, including extensive help pages.
		This is the first computer system in the Maltese language, Dr Gatt said, “and mistakes in one version will be corrected when a new version is available”.
		A Maltese version of the computer keyboard is also available and a local company is selling keyboards with Maltese characters on it.
	www.independent.com.mt /news2.asp?artid=31050 (682 words)

	Evertype: The Alphabets of Europe
		The repertoire is given, in an alphabetical order as found in the sources, and includes digraphs, trigraphs, or tetragraphs used as “letters” for alphabetizing, when a language is subject to this practice.
		Letters in (parentheses) are fundamental letters normal to the alphabet of a languages, used in writing native or naturalized (non-foreign) words, but which are, in the sources, interfiled with the base letter.
		In the case of Tundra Nenets, for instance, because ’ and ” are used as letters of the alphabet, it is fairly certain that « and » are used as quotation marks (as they are in Russian), even though the sources consulted do not give this information explicitly.
	www.evertype.com /alphabets (3504 words)

	Maltese Language/Locale Support \| Malta Linux User Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Below is a table containing some of the 'special' characters used in the Maltese language, together with their value in the ISO-Latin-3 character set (out of 256), and in the Unicode character set (out of 65,536).
		If it displays the date in Maltese, but the Maltese letters do not display correctly you just need to tell the terminal to use the correct font - we will do this later.
		Note: Much of the work on the Maltese locale definitions was done by the lingwa.org.mt team, of whom the author is a humble member :)
	linux.org.mt /article/locale (1495 words)

	The Maltese Language
		These, in turn, are said to have evolved from the earlier Semitic language of the Assyrians and the Babylonians, whose empire stretched westwards from the Middle East till as far as the shores of Palestine in the Eastern Mediterranean.
		The ceding of the Maltese Islands by Charles V (in the year 1530) to the Order of the Knights of Saint John (made up of 8 Langues) further increased the cultural and linguistic influences on the Maltese population.
		And thus, the mother-language was shamefully shunned by the Maltese upper class, relegating it to the status of
	www.my-malta.com /interesting/MalteseLanguage.html (2217 words)

	Foam Train fonts
		A basic letter of the alphabet in Maltese, corresponding to the Arabic h.
		A basic letter of the alphabet in Lapp, and it is therefore one of the standard ISO characters, but it is absent from most fonts.
		Tricameral alphabets have three, and a normal font of roman type can be described as tricameral, if you distinguish upper case, lower case and small caps.
	www.owlsoup.com /foamtrain/glossary/bbb.html (1760 words)

	Zebbug Secondary School - M A Vassalli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He is often called 'the father of the Maltese language'.
		Vassalli was born at the village of Zebbug on 5th.
		During the blockade of Valletta, Vassalli went over to the Maltese but was suspected of treason and exiled.
	schoolnet.gov.mt /zebbugsec/vassalli.htm (302 words)

	Books & CDs Review
		A classification of the fish that can be found in the Maltese waters is presented at the beginning of the chapter of fish recipes.
		For Maltese, those who are familiar with Malta's history, and anyone interested in learning a bit about the recent history of Malta and the Maltese character, the book offers a look at how life might have unfolded during the dark days of Malta's last great siege.
		Vital terms such as "empathy", "the past", "the present" and "primary and secondary sources" are tackled at the onset to aid the student's appreciation of the value of studying history.
	www.maltagozo.com /books.html (2600 words)

	Malta Today
		Lately I have published some Maltese educational books that introduce language and grammar and also a Maltese alphabet poster.
		And the Maltese language is one of them along with many others.
		We ought to be responsible for teaching the approved version of Maltese to all those who wish to learn it, be they in Malta or abroad.
	www.maltatoday.com.mt /2004/09/26/l3.html (291 words)

	Mandrake 8.2 Ippublikat \| Malta Linux User Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From this second screen onwards, the entire installation process is in the language selected, allowing the user to perform the entire installation in Maltese.
		The Maltese keyboard layout files, based on the recently-officially-adopted MSA keyboard layout standards, is available for download from this website, and will form part of official Linux distributions in the very near future.
		The Maltese translation of open-source software is a voluntary project, and one which benefits the entire community.
	www.linux.org.mt /node/35 (682 words)

	The Maltese Alphabet (Manufactured Environments)
		The Maltese Alphabet consists of 24 Consonants and 5 Vowels.
		Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.
		This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
	manufacturedenvironments.com /2006/01/27_the_maltese_alphabet.html (703 words)

	The Phoenician Language Site
		The "neutral" people of Malta have always found ways to dodge political alliances, and invaders, and hid their cultures (and language idioms) even from people who shared their Islands with them like the Knights Hospitaliers.
		We will explore the Maltese language and how it relates to / differs from the spoken Lebanese language, and try to explore the common Phoenician in both.
		In addition, we will see that Lebanese was Phoenician mixed with classical Arabic (and possibly other languages), and Maltese was Phoenician mixed with old Sicilian, not Italian, but Sicilian, and not even today's Sicilian, but old Sicilian.
	malta.lebaneseclub.org (481 words)

	MalteseTranslators.com - Reliable translators for Maltese
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		We are a team of translators working together translating into/from Maltese.
	www.maltesetranslators.com (280 words)

	Alphabetical Dog Names
		Choose a name adapted to your dog taking into account its size, sex, character.
		The Alphabetically Ordered Dog Names listed within will help you choosing a dog name with the same love and care then a choosing a name for a child.
		Dogs are family member of high value that will become part of your family for years to come.
	www.seefido.com /html/alphabetical_dog_name_list_ind.htm (317 words)

	Maltese alphabet Information
		It is used to write the Maltese language.
		Note that it does not contain the Latin letter Y.
		View a list of authors or edit this article.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Maltese_alphabet (45 words)

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