No, Patty

No

No

I am ...not watching from Malta.

Maltese: The only Arabic language written in the Latin Alphabet Cypriot Arabic: Allow me to introduce myself.

Thanks for commenting this. As you said, Allah is just the Arabic word for God, and Alla (without the h letter/sound) is just the Maltese word for God. It's not really strange, it's just how languages work, but I do kind of understand why an English-speaking person thinks this is "strange". I'm Maltese by the way.

Exactly, that was such a dumb thing to say

@@IsaacBTTF you're right, moreover if the speaker speaks only english. Knowing more than one language helps to catch it.

Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews were saying Allah for God long before Islam began.

@@challalla yeah and they pretty much still do

Almost all Indo Iranian languages west of India are written in Perso-Arabic script.

@@IlluminatingLamp yess, in Pakistan and Afghanistan as well

@@o_s-24 Afghans speak Dari, a dialect of Farsi. Another dialect of Farsi is Tajik, spoken in Tajikistan and written in the Cyrillic alφaβet.

@@IlluminatingLamp Kurdish uses Latin alphabet mostly and is slowly being shifted to use Latin only

@@tutigseg i mean kurds in iran still use arabic script tho right?

Then Polish spams Z everywhere

And Turkish spams ğ everywhere

And Romania spamming țțțț

Germans: ßßßßßß

And Welsh - LL LL LL LL everywhere

that practice originated from early cell phones which had texting function but didn't support arabic alphabet, so arabic speakers resorted to using latin alphabet and numbers for the sounds that don't exist in latin. To this day it's easier to type in latin alphabet than switch your keyboard to arabic

In Lebanon it's done everywhere. And it's really bad. If they don't pay attention to it, soon noone will use the Arabic script anymore

@@o_s-24 Same in Egypt, many of my friends type Arabic in Latin all the time when it's totally unnecessary, even some of them screw up when they try typing in Arabic

a b t th j hh x d dh r z s sh ss dd tt tth ae gh f q k l m n h w y (this is still hideous, especially tth) a b t þ j ħ x d ð r z s š ss dd tt ðð æ ġ f q k l m n h w y (sure/maybe)

@@interbeamproductions More like: a (2) b t th j 7 5 d th r z s sh s d t th 3 8 f q k l m n h w y. Yeah...

Camisa is not Arabic. It comes from Latin.

@@Gubbe51 maybe its like قميص

@@Gubbe51 Kamis is also used in arabic, but yeah, it could come indeed from the latin language originally.

@@huriale1617 In India they have Shalwar Kamees. Maybe they are related, but Latin camisa is well documented.

Camisa is not a loan from Latin. The word had its roots in Arabic before. For example: "Tacamus", which means assuming others personality, or appearance. And then why would Arabs borrow it from Latin if the Arabs were the ones who were selling almost everything to Romans and Greeks : silk, clothes, perfumes, fruit- vegetable seeds, gum? That's why, on the other hand, Arabs borrowed some names of the Greek and Roman coins.

And still have influence from them with vocabulary and Spanish with pronunciation.

That's because malta Iberia and Sicily were at one point all controlled by the Islamic caliphate and later on the emirate of Sicily and the different Andalusian kingdoms.

Al Andalus

and a lot of spanish words are from arabic

@@lordsiomai We don't really use them so much unless we talk of food or some clothes, we tend to use latin words or native american words. In my case as my mother is mexican we have tendency for use nahuatl words and some mayan ones, but in general that is the idea, only food (maily condiments) or some clothes.

Christian arabs also use the word Allah in the middle east ,the speaker doesn't evn know that

In Maltese we also say 'jekk Alla jrid' which also means 'if God allows'.

@@DanielMemeSmith jrid also apparently came from Arabic it's yrid/erid means wants (if Allah wants) it's used in local dialects.

​@@Meer101some christian in indonesia also uae allah.

Indeed, although contrary to popular belief, it didn't etymologically came from insha'Allah but rather from the Al-Ándalus variant "Law shaꞌa Allah" (lauxalá>loxalá>oxalá>ojalá)

I believe I've heard that Maltese and specifically the Tunisian dialect of Arabic is about 70% intelligible still! :) I've seen some videos about that in the past

So it's similar to English in how it was a Germanic language, but then had a huge Latin influence due to the Roman empire.

the Arabic "dialects" are basically languages too, during the medieval ages French, Portuguese, Spanish etc.. were also considered vulgar latin dialects although they were already very different. Same thing with Arabic dialects nowadays

Not unlike the other Arabic languages

@DropkicktheDecepticon Lunar studio didn't say it was. Its origins were from a dialect of Arabic in the same way French came from a dialect of Latin.

I was always curious about Pantelleria and Lampedusa, being such lonely islands in the Mediterranean. Whilst having been twice in Malta, I never made it there.

It's more like if people close to you have a way of writing that suits your needs and you don't have one you take it. If you conquer places, you want the people under you writing like you (you don't want them getting silly thoughts about cultural determination or anything) But anyways, the point of the video was just to state that Maltese is the only Semitic language to use the Latin script and that its peculiar in that it is the only one and scripts made to encode the plethora of sounds needed would've been better suited to it, not that Latin is used to write languages outside of Indo European ones. If anyone thought that claim was being made, they need to step out of their bubble and realize the rest of the world can also see everyone else and is therefore already familiar with the broad use of Cyrillic and Arabic characters to write other languages.

I can only understand randan (sounds like Ramadan), Holy communion, zawag, and what in my region is called ma3mudeeia.. Qrar means decision in my region . Ghid I assume comes from 3eed, meaning holiday. It seems Maltese uses Islamic names for Christian holidays and sacred events/Items. Also it seems gh in maltese equals ع (3) in Arabic.

@@habibi_sport312 Yes għ=ع (but for us it's 99% of the time a silent letter). What I wrote about Għid being Easter would be in parallel with Eid al-Fitr in Islam (from what I remember my friends saying) but I get what you're saying that it's just the general word for holiday. I believe for you Christmas is called Eid al-milad for example (which we incidentally call il-Milied)

@@atrumluminarium Yes, I assumed correctly. This is so interesting!

I assume from the arabic words رمضان، عيد، قربان، زواج، معمدانية

Like Yiddish, or literally ‘Jewish.’ אוי וויי איז מיר. Other than Yiddish and Hebrew, and possibly Aramaic, I know no languages written in the Hebrew script.

@@HippieVeganJewslim Ladino (Judaeo-Spanish) , Italkian (Judeo-Italian), Yevanitika.(Judaeo-Greek), exist too. They're actually used to be more.

@@ronmaximilian6953 I’ve heard of Ladino, gracias, but I forgot about it; lo siento. The other two are new to me, so grazie e ευχάριστο!

Greeks are not Europeans! The Greeks themselves know that now, the Greek language has a lot of Arabic in it's appearance too. 600 years after Christ is the Greek language, the Greeks lived all over Iran and migrate to better countries and then think it belongs to them

​@Graeme Duncan Italians hail from the Middle East aren't Europeans either! Greeks have nothing to do with Etruscans, the Etruscan language is still spoken today. And no, there was never a manuscript where it says Greek. The Romans were Etruscans and the Italians are of Arabic blood

Jeah, but back then, they named "Litvins"

It could also be from the 200+ years of Hospatallier Rule of the island. I mean many knights came from France.

You see, the point is, when a language is this unique and has such a cool history, l dont think getting loanwords is a good idea, because you will start an irreversible trend that will end up killing the language alltogether. I see this with my language(albanian). People are using more english words every single day. So be creative and invent new words from existing roots

@@albanian_barcelona_fan Like "Anglish"? That's English with Latin removed or reduced. Don't say "bus" or "omnibus," say "folkwain." German could do this, but "bus" would be "Volkswagen."

So cool! As a french I wouldn't think they use my language for daily greeting lol

​@@albanian_barcelona_fan everywhere in Europe it happens also Asia, South America and other places. Internet helps this movement.

Exactly! For me as a Tunisian, Maltese people and Sicilians will always be closer to us than say people from the arabian peninsula

@@hamzahammami22 Same for me and say people from Northern Italian cities like Milan, Turin or Venice. Tunisians and Maltese are far closer cultures to Sicily.

​@@mygetawayart as a sicilian, the maltese are of course closer to us than the tunisians ( the muslim world is different from ours in many ways ), but I deeply respect Tunisians people and the ties we had with them in the past

@@esti-od1mz Aren't modern day Maltese pretty much just people descended from Sicilians that spoke Arabic and reconverted back to Christianity? I think it would only make sense that the Maltese are like Sicilians.

@@murkywaters5502 the maltese and the sicilians share most of their dna. The maltese are mostly the descendants of siculoarabics, but keep in mind that the siculoarabics were not genetically close to northafricans or arabs from the gulf

Jokes aside, in Maltese we say "Lvant" which literally means "East", which I think is derived from Arabic. Was quite surprised when I found out the region was named that way.

@@realeggboi wow, I always thought it was some kind of french root.

@@somekek6734 upon further inspection I now realise it's Italian, not Arabic. It comes from the word 'levante'.

what are you talking about?. the Levant speak and write in Arabic.

@@salimd7842Israel speaks Hebrew

No, It's Alaha or Elaha in Aramaic.

Not to mention that every single arab christian, millions of them, naturally call God Allah and called God Allah way before they heard of Muhammad, the Quran or Islam. This fact should have stopped perplexing people long time ago, but what can you do.

@@1sanitat1 even pagan arabs used it, Allah is the arabic word for God, it's that simple but people still find it confusing.

@@barakato Not exactly. the word "God" in Arabic is "Ilah", but the word "Allah" means the True, One and Supreme God. For example: the pagan Arabs used to believe in many gods among these gods is Allah and they believe that Allah is the supreme God that's because they used to worship other gods just to get closer to Allah. In Arabic, word "Allah" is a word that connot be pluralized but word "God" or "Ilah" are plural-able so: "god" -> "gods" and "Ilah" -> "Aliha". So in Recap: word "Ilah" is an adjective. (to mean god) and word "Allah" is a name. (of the True God ) and that's why you find non-Arab Muslims say "Allah"

@@save_sudan_and_palestine you're 100% true, every religious person finds his god as the superior one so that's why most non-muslim arabs also use it. and there is also the word "rab" that means a god or sometimes a lord. man i love Arabic, it's my favorite language so far.

Not really tho Allah is specifically the abrahamic god, like God is specifically THE God. A deity would be illah (Allah is thought to be a contraction of Al illah). Kinda like Deus in latin languages is God but deus is other deities

@@Lucasp110Thank you for saying this, Allah is the word for the Abrahamic god, but Illah is for God in general. Otherwise the testimony of faith would be something like There is no Allah but Allah or لا الله الا الله

@@Lucasp110 That distinction exists in English as well God (with a capital "g") is the abrahamic God, while god (with a lower case "g") can refer to any deity what so ever, so for example Zeus is a god but not the God. That's also true in my native Finnish where "jumala" mean " a god" or "a deity" but "Jumala" (with a capital "J") refers to the Abrahamic (often Christian as Finland is dominantly Christian nation) God.

Yeah, I had similar notes in my head. Came here for this...thanks

@@Lucasp110 Doesn't have to be actually. Linguistically speaking, it's very likely that Allah is the reduced form of "Al-Ilah". Arabs often drop glottal stops in words commonly used, there are many examples for that, like the word " lu'lu' " can be pronounced "lulu" So Allah is just God with capital G. It just happens that Abrahamic religions adopt this concept of one God

Yeah like in the word for voice. Il-leħen

That was a cool bonus to an interesting video.

I heard most Maltese speak italian, do you or anyone you know?

@@EvilEgg331 most people know it because not too long ago tv was only in Italian and most people learn it at school along with English, Maltese and french

@@EvilEgg331 Only old people are fluent in Italian nowadays. Under British rule, there was a huge debate about which language should be primarily used, either Italian, which had been widely used since the control under the Knights Hospitaller, or English. In the end, English won, thus becoming an official language, but Italian was still widely spoken, until the younger generations started learning English as a mandatory language. So, to answer your question, most Maltese don't speak Italian, but most people above around 40 years may understand Italian.

Bro I love people who say "It's pronounced like zalzett" as though we already know the language and know how that word would sound lmao it's awesome that this bad transliteration deal is universal in humans

Very knowledgeable 12 year old friend 😊

Would be similar letters as in Urdu/Pashto.

Early forms of Spanish and Mozarabic (romance language spoken in Al-andalus) were often written in the Arabic script.

The closest I can think of is Yiddish, it's a German descendant in Hebrew script.

ھائ، ھو آر یو مئ فرند

Living Indo-European languages written in a modified Arabic script include Persian, Kurdish and Urdu.

Technically English falls into that category

Yiddish os European

@@the_linguist_ll lol you're right!!

and every non-latin language using the latin script

@@user-lq7qj8ue1xYiddish is a mixture of Hebrew and German though

Etymologically speaking, "Allah" is a combination of "Al" (the) and "illah" (god), thus literally meaning "The [only] God"

@@imaadhaq540 from what I also know "El" was the word for gods in general in Sumerian, but it also was the name for the highest god in their pantheon. This word can be found a lot of times in atleast Christian texts (but I wouldn't be surprised if you found it elsewhere like the Qur'an) with things alike "Emanuel": "God among us"= "emanu+el", or "Gabriel": "strength of god".

@@lorenzo8208 Interesting! I doubt that has much to do with this though since "al" is just Arabic for "the."

@@imaadhaq540 yeah, but maybe something like "illah"

@@lorenzo8208 Ohh I see. The proto semitic word for "god" is "il"/"el" so I think you are correct.

As a Kuwaiti myself, seeing some news broadcasts in Maltese, I could understand a good chunk of what is being said. It’s rather fascinating.

@@alarabi98 oh wow

As a Tunisian with some knowledge of italian i can pretty much understand 80% of what's being said. I find it uncanny that the accent and pronunciation is so similar to the Tunisian dialect, it's like hearing a native tunisian speaking a weird language.

@@butt3rcxp_572 interesting, never heard of that place tho

@@wolfbanesons what Tunisia ? It's right next to you lol

well we do now lol

Our neighbour's in the house across the street from the house I lived in when I was growing up were from Malta. I was a friend of the youngest two kids. Since Malta in the Mediterranean is just south of Sicily and north of Libya in North Africa they spoke more than one language. They spoke English all the time at home. In Malta they could understand and speak some Sicilian Italian spoken in Sicily and the southern part of Italy. They could also understand a bit when someone was speaking the Berber Arabic language spoken in most of Libya and other parts of North Africa along the Mediterranean.

Wrong it's Phoenician with Arab influence.

Yeah its kinda like saying english is dervied from old german

Well arabic and latin are ultimately both derived from Phoenician so technically yes it is.

@@hx0d neither language is derived from Phoenician. Lain is an Indo European language, not even remotely related to Phoenician. And whole Arabic and Phoenician are both Semitic languages,, they are on different branches of central Semitic languages

Hi, Maltese speaker here, I fully agree with what you said that the Maltese language and culure should be more recognised. I have some lingual corrections if you're interested: 'q' is not a silent consonant, it's a glottal stop. Also, although 'għ' is silent for the most part, it is spelled like an 'h' at the end of a word and it functions as a vowel lengthener and such. for example: "bagħad" ('he hated') is pronounced 'baat', "mixgħul" ('lit'/'switched on') is pronounced 'mish-aawl'/'mish-ewl', "Għid" ('Easter') is pronounced 'aayt'/'eyt', "bejgħ" ('sale') is pronounced 'bey-h'. Plus "Il-Kantalina" is indeed derived from Italian.

@@graemeduncan1232 yeah, it is common for different dialects to have different vowels in words when spoken. Since the language is semitic and most words are built on consonantal roots, it doesn't really matter if you deviate the vowels from what is standard, as long as the consonants are still the same. For example, "Seqejja" and "Saqajja" both mean 'my leg'.

Hi, @@DanielMemeSmith. Thanks for your response. I was meant to respond ages ago but I couldn't find the video notification and forgot. That's really interesting about the letters and pronunciations. Yes, I remember "q" is a glottal stop like in "Bubaqra", but the "gh" is a little confusing. I've only very hard locals pronounce "Gharghur" as "Gar-goor" but that's probably because they don't say the "Hal" before it but I always hear locals pronounce "Hal Ghaxaq" as "Hal Asha". Do you understand any Arabic? I've heard Libyan and Tunisian are the closest to Maltese.

​@@MCharlerySmith Yeah, Arabic and its variants might be partially intelligible to us. The language gets confusing for beginners but for me it is an intuitive and down-to-earth language, it has some exceptions to the rules (i mean, what natural language doesn't?) but once you get those down it's plain sailing because there aren't many silent letters except for 'għ' and 'h'. As I said before, these are special consonants because they serve more as grammatical functions than plain consonants. Also you might hear 'Ħal Għaxaq' as 'Hal Asha' because when the glottal stop is at the end it sounds faint and negligible. 'Għargħur' is the only exception word which has 'għ' commonly pronounced as 'g', so you shouldn't worry much about these consonants. Most commonly, 'għ' lengthens vowel sounds: 'għa' (aa), 'għe' (ee), 'għo' (oo); and changes them: 'għi' (pronounced 'ay'/'ey'), 'għu' (pronounced 'ew','aw').

@@DanielMemeSmith. Thanks for all of that! What's the difference in vowel sound between "jew" and "ghu" then? This is all great info for me. I didn't know the gh elongated vowel sounds. Are you a Maltese author or tutor? Please let me know if you have a Maltese language page of your own.

Also, did you know that there is a kind of gear mechanism called the Geneva drive, which is also called a Maltese cross mechanism because of the shape of one of its gears? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive

I thought it was gonna be about transliteration of near Eastern languages into Latin script, which sometimes includes Arabic numerals in the middle of a word! Hope Patrick covers that some day. I'm glad this one is about Maltese though. Fascinating language and an official EU one now too, of course. An old school friend of mine is half-Maltese despite having been born just up the road from me in North Wales.

It's like saying it's weird a Russian speaking Jew says Bog. It's just the word in their native language.

@@NeonBeeCat Right. Like an Arabic Christian calling the trinity Allah.

Andalusia is amazing but the Catholics ruined it.

same

Obviously the guy came from a town full of bogans.

I imagine Bougain is probably a proper noun (likely a person or ethnic group) and the -ville part is just a suffix meaning “town”

@@SamAronow I’ve always thought the Australians who are in-the-know must be cracking up at the fact that there will soon be a new country in the region that sounds like it’s called “Boganville”, lmao.

It was named after the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville. It's also the origin of the name of the Bougainvillea genus of flowers

bougainville is also the name of a flower often found in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands.

Even when it's used in these other languages it's still called the Arabic script and being used in other languages doesn't really take anything away from its uniqueness. Same thing with the Latin script, we continue to call it Latin whether it's used in English, French, Spanish or Italian.

@@DanielMemeSmith well it sounds better and plus you still know what I meant anyway

@@DanielMemeSmith idk it just does Mall-tan-ease Vs Mal-tease

Maltanese?

It's truly fascinating and as European i feel bad that so many other westerner don't realize the diversity and wealth in South Asian languages

fun fact: romania used to use the cyrillic alphabet

@@LeOrtacud, уеs, until the 1860s.

Maltese speaker here, to let you know that 'ħ' is pronounced like english 'h' regardless of position in a word. you can make it throaty if you'd like. also letter 'h' (the one without the dash) is mostly silent, except for when it's at the end of a word which turns into the aforementioned 'ħ'. the digraph letter 'għ' is silent but it lengthens and changes vowel sounds. it also sounds like 'ħ' at the end of a word. examples: "ħanżir" ('pig') is pronounced ''han-ziyr", "deheb" ('gold') is pronounced 'de-eb', "għalih" ('for him') is pronounced 'aalih', "bagħad" ('he hated') is pronounced 'baat', "mixgħul" ('lit'/'switched on') is pronounced 'mish-aawl'/'mish-ewl', "Għid" ('Easter') is pronounced 'aayt'/'eyt', "bejgħ" ('sale') is pronounced 'bey-h'.

i believe it would be based off of MSA, Modern Standard Arabic

Only half a million people speak Maltese so I highly doubt it.

As an Arab, there's ways for actual appropriate transcription of Arabic into Latin, but the terrible chat alphabet is not an acceptable way

Is it possible? Of course it is as teenagers we did it effortlessly. Is it necessary? Absolutely not.

Just use diacritics

@@ernestomarin230 or just use the arabic script, btw I'm not referring to any translation just the use of the arabic language in communication

@Graeme Duncan Better to learn fus7a than maltese...

We do say alla to refer to any god, but Alla with a capital A refers only to the Christian God, so Zeus is an alla, but God is Alla.

@@realeggboi That's cool, thanks for the clarification! I guess that works the same in English and my primary language which is Dutch.

Yeah its the word for god

Why do you want to convert the beautiful Arabic to the Latin ?. The reason why the Turks converted the Arabic letters into Latin is because the secularists who hated Islam at this time took control of Turkey... Turkic Muslims suffered at this time and Western culture was imposed on them by force.

It was actually done by the Lebanese poet Said Akl and he tried to get it in use in newspapers but he started just before the civil war broke out so it never got used. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Akl

Isn't the word "God" sounds like "Ilah" in Arabic?

@@user-ft5xq6qd7x more like eelah also both are correct.

​@@user-ft5xq6qd7xilah means a god. With small g. Like saying a god of (something) like Zeus god of thunder. Allah is God with capital G. Or THE god. They say La ilah ilah Allah which is There is no god but God.

@@Tummamu I understood.

الفرانكو الحقير ربنا يكفينا شره😂 مش بطيقه نهائي

Same thing with hebrew

I hate it so much when Arabic speakers write Arabic in this chat languages, i skip reading if i see this look it's very annoying and struggle to read.

All I understood from that is 'aħna' (we) and 'nikteb' (write)

@@PJDubbing It's We have to write like this sometimes احنا نضطر نكتب كذا أحيانا

bro maltese comes from siculo arabic we are european not african

@@LeftHandSupremacist where do you think siculo arabic came from?

@@graemeduncan1232 i agree

same

naqbel

The Quran is strictly written in Arabic to avoid any manipulation (intentional or otherwise) but the Tafsir (The explanation of Quran) can be written in any other language. Most Turks have a basic understanding of the Arabic alphabet and how to read the Quran in Arabic but when it comes to the interpretation of the verses Turkish is used.

In Israel we mostly speak Hebrew English or Russian, Arabic is only in west bank, and Haifa

​@@R0DBS2 moroccan jews

Morocco always speaks Arabic, some speak tamzigh but the majority speaks Arabic in their dialects because as you may not know every region in every Arab country have different dialects but it's all Arabic . And the ones who born and raised outside of morocco are the one that usually don't speak it obviously. Iran is not Arab country of course they are not speaking Arabic they have their own language and hebrew is spoken in occupied Palestine but also Arabic for the Arabs there.

@@R0DBS2 uh oh

True

true

@@ahaansaccount8422 exactly

You don't define the English language. It now has a meaning referring to jews. By this logic the English language would be reformed completely.

@@dopamine-boost 🤓

@@DanielMemeSmith When you have no arguments.

The Arabs who conquered Malta and most of the Mediterranean came came from the levant not from the Saudi Peninsula.

duolingo is expanding dw it will prolly get one in a few years (should any1 ask for it)