any chatters?

[Judy Perry]

Fascinating!

Judy

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, sims wrote:

> >I didn't know Maltese was a Semetic language!
> >
> >Judy
>
>
> Maltese is a Semitic language.
> Maltese developed from a dialect of Arabic and is closely related to
> the western Arabic dialects
> of Algeria and Tunisia. Strongly influenced by the Italian dialect
> spoken in Sicily, Maltese is the
> only form of Arabic to be written in the Latin alphabet.