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Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
> 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.
or perhaps I read about it in a book.
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