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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.
from the point of view of arabic dialectology, it is an offshoot of N.
African arabic, because of the verbal conjugation and vocabulary, also
with some admixture of levantine or egyptian. there must have been an
arab christian population before the Normans, because of arabic
christian religious vocubulary.
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