Re: English as a creole.

On Jul 16, 6:53 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:
On 16 heinä, 10:52, Andrew Woode <andrew_wo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maltese <ie> are from Arabic /a:/ if I remember rightly.

Yes, they have some fancy name for that a -> ie in Arabic, it is a

ima:la

Not just dialects. Classical and Standard also.

regular process in some dialects. Well, I reckon the default authority
is Joseph Aquilina, and he gives Italian and Sicilian as the source of
Mt missier. And there are Romance words in Mt with -ie-, such as
bersaljier.-

The _musawwir_ suggestion appeared to date from the 1930s. There may
have still been some back then who thought Maltese was the descendant
of Phoenician, which was the view in the mid 19th century.

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