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Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> Paul D wrote:
> > On 2006-08-17 20:57:23 +0900, "Dr. Jamshid Ibrahim"
> > <Jdibrahim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> >
> > > I understand it is not that easy to classify the many varieties of
> > > Arabic but it is still useful for orientation.I would like now to make
> > > the following proposal (subject to change):
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. Middle East
> > > - Mesopotamian Iraq / Kuwait
> > > - Levantine: Syria / Lebanon / Jordan / Palestine
> > > - Arabian Peninsular: Saudi Arabia / UAE / Bahrain
> > > - Yemen& Oman Yemen / Oman
> > >
> > > 2. Africa
> > > - Egyptian: Egypt, Sudan, Libya
> > > - North African (Maghreb) Algeria / Morocco / Tunisia
> > > West Arabian
> > >
> > > - African Mauritania, West Sahara
> > > Somalia, / Djibouti?,
> > > Eritrea?
> > > Chad?
> >
> > What about Malta? Maltese is an Arabic dialect, albeit with a lot of
> > borrowing from Sicilian.
>
> Arabists (including e.g. Kaye & Rosenhouse) usually agree that Maltese
> is a separate language, because of the immense Italian input, the roman
> alphabet, the non-Islamic culture -- and the non-mutual-intelligibility.
also other considerations, like self-identity (they don't consider
themselves arabs), and that it is standardized and used without
diglossia with standard arabic.
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