A Historical Overview of Malta Language
Journal Title: Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi - Year 2018, Vol 58, Issue 2
Abstract
In despite of a small island country, Malta has an important history with the traces of various nations and a constantly renewing, form-changing language because of its location. This language, a dialect of Arabic language, is the only Semitic language written in Latin letters. Maltese studies around the World have begun to grow especially in recent years and conferences on this language were held and language centres and associations were established as “Malta Centre”, “International Association of Maltese Linguistics”. The publications on Malta exiles and the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 are only found in Turkey whereas Malta has a deep linguistic and politic ties. Unfortunately there is hardly any work on this language or its literature in Turkey. In this article, there will be dwelled on origin of the language, its stages, the formation of the literary language and Maltese language of the present.
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Gamze YÜCETÜRK KURTULMUŞ
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