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Originally Posted by WeasteDevil
You are worse than Sporting who claims that the Portuguese are Luisitanian.
Firstly, Italians are not direct decendents of Romans.
Secondly, when the Arabs invaded Malta, they threw everyone who lived there out. The Maltese are not decended from Italians, but from Arabs, which is why Maltese is a Semitic language, and not an Italic language. Other words came into Maltese after the Arabs were thrown out. These are adopted words that did not change the fundamentals of the Semitic language that is Maltese.
You don't even have a clue about your own history, yet jabber on about other people's.  |
While I have nothing against the Arabs (you are using the word Arab as if there is something to be shy about being Arab, why?) the first Maltese came from Sicily, Italy. The Arabs had invaded Malta influencing a bit the Maltese language but the Maltese kept their identity, remained fiercely Christian and till the time of date the Maltese had valued their close ties with their Italian origins and vice versa (Mussolini himself stated that Malta should be Part of Italy because the Maltese are Italians)