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Re: Varieties of Arabic

Subject: Re: Varieties of Arabic
From: "Peter T. Daniels"
Date: 19 Aug 2006 16:50:28 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:

> a had heard they could get the gist of arabic conversations. but a
> maltese origin poster in sci.lang said his mother was unable to
> understand arabic anouncements on a UAE airlines flight. nevertheless,
> they don't consider themselves arabs, and in Malta arabic and Maltese
> departments are seperate, Peter Daniels had said in this forum.

I have never said such a thing.

I said that Arabists generally call Maltese a separate language, for
the various reasons I and you have listed. But I know nothing of any
universities in Malta.


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