Wonderful channel, Paul! Where are you from, and what is your mother tongue, if I may ask? :-)

parsuna An old Arabic word' "par" means son :

Langfocus I know all of these

But north african arabic is close to poanicians .. 🙂

Langfocus I love Malta but there's one thing I don't get. They have such a fine cuisine but during my visit in 1999 it was _"full"_ of American fast food chains. KFC, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King or Subway everywhere compared to my native country of Germany at that time _(we catch up)_ and definitely much more than Italy. Especially the variety was new to me. We mostly has McDonald's and I grew up in Heidelberg, the headquarters of the US Army in Germany. Our US population percentage was in the double digits. And they had plenty of influence on our culture _(German Hip-Hop started here)._ Why does a country with a fine Mediterranean cuisine have such an infrastructure for junk food. Not that I love to have a classic McDonald's Cheeseburger or Quarter Pounder/ Royal _(Käse/with Cheese)_ as we sincerely call him here but how could Pizza Hut, for example, get a hold on Malta? There's plenty of good pizzarias, owned by Italians _(check out Bianco's in Saint Julians/San Ġiljan)_ to enjoy "real pizza". Does any Maltese know the answer? I know this might be a weird question. But it's one that can't be answered by an Internet research.

I don't speak Arabic btw

@@Lri0 Yes , your language is very very close to our dialect , even though your culture had been separated from us for about 900 years !!

Just took this Ancestry test and now just learned for the first time in my life that I am also Maltese. I knew I had at least 2 main Italian blood lines inside of me with a few other things, but did not know I had 3 main Italian blood lines inside of me.

I speak arabic : kefak enti ya laura ?

That’s interesting

Sheldam 🤣🤣🤣

Sheldam so funny yeah 😂

The Algerian girlfriend is your wife or what!?

AeCream Rabahi Located DZ Ne sois pas jaloux XD

Ha ha ha

Same

😄👏

Same except I'm iraqi and self taught Italian

It's so cool شي حلو :)

مام انا هداوين شفت فيديو تع وحدة تهدر مالطية . حسيت كيلي راني فالدزاير هههه . Me too . I have watched a video of someone speaking in Maltese . I was astonished because I have noticed that many words are similar too Arabic . So , I felt that this language is an Arabic descent

Good to know, I can easliy understand the maltese too, i(m algerian

@@TheTrooper182 u have a nice name

@@BB-xm8bu As you too exactly ^^

@קומפרסור יהודים متحشمش يا اخي عامل خط عبري وتقول فلسطيني كيفك هما لي رجعو فلسطين على ما هي عليه اليوم

@קומפרסור יהודים You are not from Palestina,because you wrote your name in Hebrew

Thank you in. In Arabic we say insellemalikom min - el Aziza Malta

I want to learn this language, it is beautiful!

I m Moroccan , and I m really interested in your language, in fact I would like to have a friend from Malta .

Really a beautiful language, I can easily understand it ! from an algerian

You said kisses from dear Malta or something like that ,right ?

Maltese guy: Well as second language we got English so 90% speaks/understands it. As for Italian ,the maltese who are in age group of 30yrs to 60yrs in 2020 speak fluently Italian but because of following ITALIA UNO, RETE 4 and CANALE 5. Arabic: some had the opportunity including me to lean it at school but that is all. Just remember the alphabet and may read words ...which could be meaningless to me or else compare and understand due to Maltese similarity!

Saudi and Kuwaiti Arabic is very different from North African Arabic. If you studied or worked in the Maghreb I am certain you would be shocked how much it sounds EXACTLY like Maltese. I'm half Moroccan and I literally had my mouth wide open in shock at how much it sounds like our dialect. It is literally like 80% close to ours but instead of having Italian influence we have French and Spanish influence but the Arabic parts are the exact same! It was really cool lol. You guys are our Christian cousins in a way I guess

@@mirandapillsbury7885 He means MSA arabic habibi

Maybe the 30% arabic do not count north african words but only standard arabic

The percentage is only about the overall vocabulary, it does not take into account the frequency of the words. Many frequent words will still be of Arabic origin while abstract and less frequent words or certain vocabulary thematic fields might be much more Italian, giving an average of 30% Arabic origin.

Ur 10

Nick Portelli im also Australian and im arab originally from the levant (lebanon) i used to have maltese neibours and i lived near them for so many years but never knew there language was similar to arabic like this

QQ: why are there so many maltese in australia?

@@profilepicture828 many Maltese emigrated to Australia in 80s (I think not entirely sure) for better living I guess

Jerome Cachia ok thx

well, I saw this video 4 years ago, before that I thought Malta spoke Italian. I am an Arab, currently learning some Tunisian Arabic, I think I might learn Maltese as a bridge language to learn Romance languages.

Translating in maltese :P ''Jiena Maltija. Huwa tal-blieh kif qatt ma rrealizzajt kemm ninstemghu bhall-Gharab meta nitkellmu. Meta tkellimt bil-Malti, instmajt tajjeb u nstmajt bhal xi Gharbi haha :) Nirringrazzjak talli qed tippromwovi l-awtenticita' tal-lingwa maltija."

+Rai G i think that is a Tunisian dialect hhhh

+Yanis Elarbi could be. I don t know tunisian so I can t say as such :p But it is almost certain that maltese has arabian roots. That s at least what we have been studying in malta

+Rai G in tunisian is " Ena maltiya w jetni surprise qaddch netsam3u kif l 3arab mta netkalmou . Mta tkallamt bl malti , tprononci belgdé w tetsma3 ki l3arbi . merci lik qa3d t3amel promotion ll authenticité mta3 lsén l malti "

+Dimitri Haddad Wow :o IT IS VERY SIMILAR!!

Yes, he is. Paul is a real hyper polyglot I guess.

Yes

Can you understand the language? Im a Dutch-Moroccan btw :D

lmaoooo not really bru

Sicilian and Arabic.

@Devilikg Moronic comment

@Devilikg His pronunciation made it sound like that, but native speakers sound very different.

I agree, it sounds surprisingly beautiful, wouldnt have expected that.

+Langfocus Great video :) ...seems kinda similar to how English is essentially a Germanic language but with a majority non-Germanic vocabulary.

+Mikhael Elijah Yes, that`s true. But I guess English is so ubiquitous now that we don`t usually think about it like that.

+Langfocus were are you from? how you done maltese language{very small} before others. i am maltese. thank you

+Langfocus I guess you can make a video in collaboration with AlternateHistoryHub about a hybrid language that would've been developed had Spain allowed the Moors to stay and influence their language and culture.

+Mohammed Zaid That probably won't happen, but it's an interesting idea!

Tripolitania?

julinaonYT also amazeghi language has its influence in Libyan spoken language and in the Maltese language

منور عمو

@@Nasri.shwehdy not the Maltese language, because berbers settled south whereas Arabs settled mostly in the coast. Therefore berber influence is pretty unlikely in maltese

Yes as a Libyan i can confirm that , but to make things more clearly Libyan Arabic dialect, don't have such large influence of Italian also English , but yes we have some words originally Italian and a to smaller amount of English words

Joanne Zarb Lebanese and Maltese are very similar

+Philip Curnow I encourage you to come to Malta. I am Maltese and I love my country. It is a very beautiful and a sunny country. It won't be a problem in Malta to communicate with people. Italian is also spoken in Malta by the majority of the population. That is also especially for English. Maltese is a very interesting language; as a Maltese speaking person I'd love to know that there are foreign people who are interested in our unique language.

Javier Degiorgio fantastic, tks. To let you know I was taught Arabic by a Maltese and I have a family member who was killed in WW2 and is buried on the island. I think an eventual visit is probable.

+Philip Curnow that is interesting. I encourage you to pay a visit! :)

+Javier Degiorgio do you have couscous in malta or you only eat italian things ? by the way malta and italy are too cool towards tunisia : they never invaded us like france did. peace

+Philip Curnow he surely taught you tuniisia accent loool

Arabs (for example, from Libya) usually find it easy to learn Maltese and speak it, although you will of course hear the accent.

+Haereticus Sacrilegum ...... wow!! I didn't even know this about my own country! How long ago did this happen?

Midorikonokami In Evul Mediu.

+Haereticus Sacrilegum marre tarre frate , ca si tine eu nu intendo nu de mult, de Roman

unde e orasul asta ? poti sa spui macar cum se numeste in romana ca nu pot sa-l gasesc pe google maps

Vladimir Bajenaru Maltezi, Ialomita.

kifék bedhabt wlh hhhh ;)

dumb hater

Ahmed Farah Are your parents siblings?

Alon Levy What?

Tunisian Arabic?? they speak normal Arabic not different

Exactly

How does everyone forget Libya exists and that it is a maghrebi country that was an italian colony?

Maltese wasn't influenced by Italian at all, it was influenced by Sicilian

@@fanaticofmetal But to my understanding, sciliano is a dialect of Italian, correct?

@@HaiderAlZubaidi it's a language on its own, but yes it's kinda similar

@@HaiderAlZubaidi It's complicated. Many Italians call it a dialect of Italian (we call all languages on the peninsular 'i dialetti'- the dialects) but in reality it's a completely different language. In fact, Sicilian is actually older than standard Italian

You are very handsome!!!

+Sancho O'Dell That's really cool!

sihbi int et tifem xet nibatlek u btw jien malti lol

Tunisian, Morrocans and Algerians are Berber not Arabs.. Stop twisting facts not just because these countries are predominantly Muslim that doesn't mean they are Arab! for Tunisians we are Carthagians and it's too damn hard for other Arab countries to understand the Tunisian Derja..

+S3id Sami 88% of Tunisians are Berbers, only 4% are Arabs these are the last national and international statistics if Tunisians are really Arabs then how come other arabs countries cannot understand the Tunisian dialect which has an amount of French, Spanish, Italians, Turkish and even Maltese words! I never identify as an Arab when my grandfathers are from Balkan origin.. Reading and learning Arabic since early age of elementary school does not make you an Arab! the National language spoken by Tunisians is Tunisian Darja which is very similar to the Maltese Lannguage. Stop fooling yourself.. W nik omek wahdek ya jéhel yali neker fi aslek kel kalb

+Belmokaddem Adil you can identify yourself as whatever you consider yourself to be but hate it or love Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco were never Arab they used to be Berber and always will be.. Other Arab countries find it hard to understand their dialects.. If you're Arabic can you go to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and any other gulf country speak with your own Algerian dialect without forcing yourself to speak with their accent/dialect so they can fully understand you?? come on dude stop deluding yourself you won't be able to make them understand your Algerian dialect unless they take lessons to learning the whole Darja language.

Good for you, Maltese is a very unique language. It's an important linguistic link as well as a potentially cultural one between east and west!

Nixtieq nirringrazzjak tal-kontribut tighek lejn il-lingwa tant sabiha taghna 🇲🇹

Sorry I don't read Maltese. Can you add a translate botton

@@ConcettaSpiteri I'm tunisian so not sure but I understood this "thank you for your contribution to our language" or something like that (didn't understand "tant sabiha" but I know that Sabiha is an old females name in tunisia that means morning/beautiful morning )

Sabiha is beautiful so he is saying Maltese language is beautiful and thanking you for contributing

Wow that's accurate

Maltese is probably closer to Arabic itself than English is to German, no?

Yeah except English and German isn’t as close and it’s harder to understand

@@mbh4575 No it's not. Pretty much , all the words introduced after AD 1070 were of mostly Sicilian and of other European origin.

@@marioformosa4259 That's irrelevant to what I said. That Maltese has loanwords from other languages doesn't make it closer to those than English is to German. Arabic speakers can understand Maltese because many of the words are he same, the same can't be said for German and English at all.

Maltese and the Italians are bound by the love of food. The art of cooking is the most sacred thing around here and is the main topic when a Maltese discusses with an Italian. It is no wonder some of us learned to speak in Italian fluently.

Maltese people are like the little cousin for southern italians.

Malta was part of Sicily million years ago

Greetings for all Egyptian Copts

You have been forced to leave Islam, you must return to Islam

did you call kuffar?

@@camilosittegassevol2944 lmao

@@marouanouanji We could easily say that you strayed from Christianity and must be brought back into the fold. It's however considered polite to do neither. You follow your religion, we follow ours, and those whom are interested in either can learn either and swap if they wish.

@@camilosittegassevol2944 Sorry?

it's just Tunisian Dialect even their insult it's the same as what u hear in tunisia xD

@@hamza-trabelsi روح تعطي باين عليك مرخس

لهجة تونسية يا حاج موش دزيرية و مالطة كانت تابعة لتونس لفترة طويلة في عهد الاغالبة و الحفصيين

7ata kinglizi 9ali9 bil a5as 9riba lil dialect tounsi be9i chedin s7i7 tichbah lil dziria hahahahahah

reason Elach yhedro b north african dialect hitach kano mste3mrin mn taraf L Moors, lmgharba l9dam, so la source dyal loghathom hya Marocaine( matensawch bli l Moors kano 7akmin north Africa kamla fi w9ithoum. hada tarikh 9raw chwya...

salam khoya , i m interessing to travel to Malta , so where do u have been , the city , was it nice ? thanks

My name is Emir too

Emir Ayub Ugh...

Emir Ayub What is your religion ?

You mean darija ;) . because we don't speak arabic

This comment is amazing, as a Sicilian

Noel Debono yes you could be the incarnation of the hope that should shape the right neighboring between both banks of the Mediterranean bassin

You have been forced to leave Islam, you must return to Islam

@@marouanouanji your people (Unless you are from Medina) were forced to believe in Islam, make your ancestors proud and leave Islam.

@@belalabusultan5911 no lol, they choose Islam cause it's the truth

​@@marouanouanjiyeah like it wasnt forced on north africa 🤡 what a delusional clown

+grande1899 Thanks Grande! And you've got a cool channel yourself!

wow my two faves!

Ayyyyyyy grandayyyyyyyyyy

Wow grande

On the contrary.The narrater was very inaccurate in Maltese History.Even basic recent ones

I’m glad you found it interesting!

Meanwhile here in 2019 waiting for bouteflika to quit xD

What is the app you used to learn maltese because i really want to learn it too

Yasmine Hafsi it sounds like how Algerians mix French with Arabic. Basically Arabic with Italian

Sah Tgoul darja T3na mkhalta b sum words menwalla 😂 I'll probably Try learning Maltese it's interesting

@@pacosmith3787 happy now?

You are mixing french with english

Letelk alard alhlwa alom alti aatatni esmaha لتلك الارض الحلوة الام التي أعطتني اسمها For beautiful mother land that gave me her name

هذه فصحى حرة

Wow! This is amazing

@@leopold949 you can say phrase in english

Its true.its aghaliba

il-lejl it-tajjeb /il-lejla it-tajba.

@@kooolkidninjamaster il-lejla t-tajba

YESSS

jah!

Jah! :-)

U mean the Uralic languages? Cuz Hungarian is interesting as well.

+Yunus Altintas Yeah i guess but the relationship between finnish and estonian is sort of interesting, in the way that finns can't understand even a bit of estonian but estonians understand finnish.

Saad Elf Thank you for complementing my country, I wish to one day come to Morocco some of my family went recently and I also want to go they say it’s beautiful. 🇲🇹❤️🇲🇦

@@samsaliba1532 you welcome in Morocco your second home, at least you not face big difficulties in the communication 😊❤️

@@samsaliba1532 I hope you enjoy your time in Morocco. I am half Moroccan and we really love all our Mediterranean brothers and sisters

The "Arabs" were only in Malta 200 years, one thousand years ago. The official language was Italian for about 700 years. The religion is Catholic, the cuisine akin to Italian. The Maltese language totally disconnected from anything Arabic since 1070 AD. In addition I understand that the North Africans are basically Imazighen and not Arabs

@@marioformosa4259 north africans speak Arabic, There are North Africa who are Arab and Who are not

+Haifa Bouajaja Hola, entonces...

+killerosito Entonces, I just shared my opinion on how well can a Tunisian understand Maltese. Did you expect anything else?

+Bettencourt Ahhh I see now :p Sorry Spanish is my 4th language, I didn't get to learn more about cultural things ;) Now I know, thank you ^^

Also Libyan, Tripolitanian Libyan to be exact, also Lebanese to some extent. I used to work for the CIA in Algeria, I did some missions in Malta, the Libyan influence is definitely noticeable more than the Tunisian.

اهلا انا سعودي وقاعد اتعلم فرنسي لاحظت كثير من المغرب العربي يعرفون اسباني ايش السبب وهي ماكانت مستعمره او شي ؟

Where are you from??

@@sayandebhalder1618 Morocco !

Italian is very beautiful too

@@beastvader you are aboslutely an arab from the middle east who always feels a complex of inferiroty toward europeans;.in tunisia we do not have that complex at all since we have common history in the med sea .

@@chawquee باين عليك معقد، لا تكذب

@@chawquee tf!🤣

That's because of your English knowledge. Many of the Maltese words borrowed from Italian include formal Latin-based words, which had already transferred into use in English in the second millenium, anyway, through biblical, French and then Renaissance-Reformation/Early Modern & Industrial & Modern & Postmodern word coinage mostly based on Latin.

@@dorthusiast he lies as a tunisian even a garbage worker understand 50% italian because we had in the past only two tv channels tunisian tv and rai uno and we speak french so italian is a cake for us

That seemed just soooooooooooo beautyfull

‘...”English Pig” but we were friends.’ This killed me😂😂😂😂

I am Maltese and the background image at 1:25 is my home village. It's called Marsaxlokk and is actually a fisherman village. it is the place where you used to swim, Marsa siroco :)

marsa is an arabic word means port

That 'Gonzo' bishop you referred to is reeling in hell as we speak for meddling in partisan politics. He excommunicated his brethren christians if they voted for the Labour Party and to suffer the wrath of god. Thanks to progressive governments that medieval mentality has no effect anymore on the Maltese electorate.

+Ennognósius Agreed. Don't forget the Germanic or "Anglo" influence too. Maltese sounds like one mutt of a language.

I'm maltese and my country is very beautiful we have really clear seas you should visit

I'm Moroccan and understood it as well. But, you'll be more surprised if you got in touch with Tunisians and West Libyan speakers. Their dialects are more similar to the Maltese.

I'm sicilian and have studied Arabic (including some dialects) and speak English. Just started studying Maltese and was so surprised when I realised I could understand most of it.

Why would you waste your time learning Arabic? Do you want to marry a Muslim !!

I'm an Energy Policy Analyst based in Istanbul and Dubai.

rjg0483 I'm atheist Arab!! Duh Not all Arab are Muslims + not all Arabic speakers are Arab Muslim!! Arab Muslims are very small population in Muslims world

Pierre Portelli fuck il qhab ta Malta!!

+Radhouen Rahmouni (RMi Radium) I'm moroccan and I've got the examples too.

Thank you!

Sergio Algoritmi holy shit I am an Arab I can understand the Arabic part of the sentence Tell me your half I tell you mine 😂

Lol

Thats right

FA Im arabic native speaker. those two words are shown frist one content alot of arabic words. i could understand what word mean but not all the language because it isolated from arabic so you know what happen. .. hebrew or عبري and arabic or عربي are semintic language so you will find similarity anyway. it easy to me to learn. 😊

If the Arabs were what Europe or Western are now! That Maltese person would’ve been so proud of his Arabic influence! It just shows that the Arabs or Islamic civilization dominated the world in history!

We actually are from arabic descent. Irrelevant if that angry bastard was angry. The truth is Arabs occupied Malta.

Maybe he was angry because he had to fart but found no empty place to do it . So he just farted silently and went out fast

as a sicilian do you understand some degree of maltese ?

@@user-kg7zr3yl3n It really depends as a Sicilian myself. Usually not because the Arabic vocabulary is roughly taken while the Sicilian loanwords have had a vowel change so they might sound Italian (U coming back to an O for example or an I becoming an E)

+Cosmo Aero V2 Ana meghribi w kanfhem la majorité del Maltiya w kanl9a ga3 chi properties mochatarakin bin Darija d-Lmaghrib w Lmaltiya bla maykounou f Dzayriya w Tounsiya; machi za3ma Moroccan Darija a9rab logha lel maltiya walakin 7it had lloghat ttewrou f nefss l-contexte géolinguistique w développaw des similarités m3a ba3diyathoum, momkin bezzaf tkon kathdar l-Maghribiya w b-jouhd sghir tfhem Lmaltiya khoussousan fel 7ala dyal lehjat d chamal d-Lmeghrib. Amma dik l9diya dyal "harsh pronounciation", hadak ghir dialecte li kaydouz bezzaf f les médias (li howa dyal Casablanca w nawa7i dyalha) w zid 3lih dialecte dyal char9 w chi w7din khrin. Netmenna tkoun fhamtini :P . Ta7iya l Tounes w nas Tounes a3az nass ! N7abkoum bezzaf w yasser w barcha :D

+Cosmo Aero V2 WoW. can you really not understand Mideastern dialects of Arabic?? I thought that we (middle easterners ) speak in a dialect very close to stander Arabic (Fuss-ha).

Hani bek No I can't, it is really hard

Even Egyptian or Lebanese?

Are there a lot of italian descendents in Tunisia?

+bilal green Yeah I wouldn't - in the UK my barbers are Arabs and when I spoke to them in Maltese they didn't understand enough to make a complete conversation. They did understand basic words.

+ElKonjato were your barbers north Africans or middle eastern Arabs ? because that makes a great difference, as said in the video.

+bilal green Libyans - they also knew were Malta was (obviously since they are our neighbours). When they spoke amongst themselves - I had no clue what they were saying.

+ElKonjato I think it would take from me less than a week to learn your language .. I saw some videos of maltese songs for kids and I could understand more than 80% of the lyrics :D

ElKonjato even your nickname is Arabic 😂 El Konyato الكنية which means in Arabic the title ✌🏼😁

i had the same observation

Elegant منافقون تزعمون صعوبة فهم المغرب العربي و تصرحون بفهم لغة أجنبية

Imdina not Mudina.. x'illostja qed thawwad siehbi?

@@imedbenzahra5653 هههههخهههههههههههههههخاي

as a tunisian from gafsa, north tunisian dialect sounds so different to me and I was shocked when I first heard it. we share a hybrid dialect from algerians next to us and from north tunisians

That's cool same here! Are u from the Maghreb countries?

+Princess arabella Yeah, I'm from Libya. By the way, I read an article about Malta in Maltese on Wikipedia and I understood about 85% of the first paragraph.

Oh wow! I'm Libyan too😇✌🏽️

Princess arabella اهلا بك. غريب جدا ان ارى شخص ليبي مهتم بالغات و الثقافات الاوروبية. ضفني على الفيسبوك: Nas Kapkara

+GamelutioN اسفه ماعندي فيس بوك و شكرا لك😇

Moudhafer Salhi we do that in morocco too

Yes, I was just about to give the same explanation. "Tinkludi" means either "you (one person) include" or "she, it (feminine noun) includes". There is no infinitive in Maltese so instead of "I need to do" or "I want to do" you say "I need I do" or "I want I do", and similarly with other verbs. I used to learn Maltese but have forgotten most of it. And another thing: solidarjetà has accent on the final vowel.

Presicely.