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| Gozitan | |
|---|---|
| għawdxi | |
| Pronunciation | |
| Native to | Malta |
| Region | Gozo |
| Native speakers | About 32,000 |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic |
| Dialects | |
| Writing system | Latin (Maltese alphabet) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | gozo1238 |
| Linguasphere | 12-AAC-cag |
 Gozo Island, Malta | |
The Gozitan dialects are rural dialects of Maltese spoken in the island of Gozo. The vowel shift of *ā (phonologically a) to o or u is their main differentiating trait.
Vocabulary
Comparison of some words in Standard Maltese and in the Gozitan dialects:
| English | Maltese | Gozitan |
|---|---|---|
| pills | pilloli | pinuri |
| shy | staħa | regħex |
| biscuit | biskuttel | fettul |
| mattress | saqqu | mitraħ |
| Gozo | Għawdex | Għawdix |
| dizzy | sturdament | mejt |
| bunch of | għanqud | xenxul |
| small table | tavolina | mejdina |
| internal hall door | antiporta | boxxla |
| to spoil someone | fsied | ħajm |
| silver foil | fidda | smontor |
| Yes | iva | ijwa |
See also
References
- Martine Vanhove, « De quelques traits prehilaliens en maltais », in: Peuplement et arabisation au Maghreb cccidental : dialectologie et histoire, Casa Velazquez - Universidad de Zaragoza (1998), pp.97-108
- Klimiuk, Maciej; Lipnicka, Maria (2022). Cohen, Yoram (ed.). "The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks". Telling of Olden Kings. The IOS Annual (22). Leiden: Brill: 146–147. ISBN 978-90-04-52679-2. OCLC 1350843539 – via The Misplaced Pages Library.
- "Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett". www.gwida.mt (in Maltese). 26 January 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
Further reading
- Aquilina, Joseph, and B.S.J. Isserlin. 1981. A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese. Volume I: Gozo. Leeds: B.S.J. Isserlin.
- Farrugia, Ruben. 2021. ‘The Acoustic Vowel Space of Gozitan Naduri and Sannati Dialects’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 197–211. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
- Gwida Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett.
- Klimiuk, Maciej. 2021. ‘Language Questionnaire for Gozo, Malta’. Folia Orientalia 58: 111–89
- Klimiuk, Maciej. 2022. ‘Vowel Length in Maltese Dialects of Gozo’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 213–27. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
- Klimiuk, Maciej, and Ruben Farrugia. 2022. ‘A Text in the Maltese Dialect of Sannat (Gozo) with Grammatical Remarks’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 381–96. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
- Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2019. ‘Dialectology in Practice: Notes from Fieldwork in Gozo’. In Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research, edited by Werner Arnold and Maciej Klimiuk, 23–32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022a. ‘Fishing and Cyclone Cutting: A Text from the Area of Għasri within the Dialect Continuum of Gozo (Malta)’. Mediterranean Language Review 29: 19–52.
- Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022b. ‘The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks’. The Israel Oriental Studies Annual 22: 145–77.
- Lipnicka, Maria. 2022. ‘Pausal Diphthongisation in Gozitan Dialects Compared to Zaḥlé, Lebanon’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 229–41. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
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