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Re: Varieties of Arabic

Subject: Re: Varieties of Arabic
From: "Yusuf B Gursey"
Date: 19 Aug 2006 19:21:07 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> 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.

sorry. it might have been someone else. but I recall such a statement.


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