Can North Africans Understand Maltese?
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2021
- What is the degree of mutual intelligibility between the North African dialects of Arabic, from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, and the Maltese language, the only Semitic language in the European Union, which shares a lot in common with Arabic! There are many similarities between them due to the history of the region. Starting in the 9th century, following the Abbasid conquest of Sicily, for over two centuries, the islands of Sicily and Malta were under Muslim rule, known as the Emirate of Sicily. During this period a variety of Arabic, known as Sicilian Arabic (Siculo-Arabic), was formed. A series of battles eventually led to the fall of Muslim rule and the re-establishment of Christian control over Sicily and Malta. However, Sicilian Arabic continued to be spoken under the new state for a few ensuing centuries until it eventually went extinct. The Maltese language today is considered to be its sole surviving descendant. The North African dialects of Arabic are related to Sicilian Arabic since they are Maghrebi dialects with a lot of similarities. As a result, the degree of mutual intelligibility between them is very high. In this video, we'll take a look at how well Libyans, Tunisians, Algerians, and Moroccans can understand Maltese with Sean (Maltese speaker) reading a couple of short paragraphs and proverbs to Lameese, Donia, Yasser, and Jihane, who represent Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, respectively.
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Algerian Arabic (Darja) is a dialect derived from the form of Arabic spoken in northern Algeria and contains Amazigh (Berber) and Latin influences, along with loanwords from French, Andalusian Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Spanish.
Libyan Arabic is a variety of Arabic that can be divided into two major dialect areas, Eastern in Benghazi and Bayda, and Western in Tripoli and Misrata.
Tunisian Arabic is similar to eastern Algerian Arabic and western Libyan Arabic, and also contains Amazigh (Berber) influence, along with loanwords from French, Turkish, and Italian.
Moroccan Arabic (Darija) is close to Algerian Arabic and has a lot of Amazigh influence, along with Punic (Canaanite), French, and Spanish.
Arabic is a Central Semitic language and has official/national status Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, SADR, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
The Maltese language (Malti) is the Latinised variety of spoken historical Arabic through its descent from Siculo-Arabic, which developed as a Maghrebi Arabic dialect during the Emirate of Sicily. It is the national language of Malta and distinguished from Arabic and other Semitic languages due to the heavy influence from Romance languages on its morphology. In addition to that, Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script.
How much of the Maltese language can you understand? Hope you enjoy the video! Be sure to follow us on Instagram and send us all your questions, suggestions and feedback: instagram.com/bahadoralast
The Moroccan girl is sweet
@@mahirhaxhiu7846 all Arab girls are sweet
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@Harj Singh Waraich I have been to Morocco and I was fine with just speaking English, though knowing some French can be helpful at times, I would say most of the young Moroccans I met spoke English just fine.
I understood nearly 95% of it even though I'm not North African!
Maltese is basically how my cousins from France try to speak Algerian dialect when they come home
😂😂😂😂👍👍 true
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Kaaghim 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm dying 🤣 especially childerns 😂
When a French tying to speak Arabic, automatically have a Algerian Arabic accent 😀
As an algerian it's funny to me understanding about 60% of Maltese without learning it, I can say Maltese is a mixture between arabic "Maghrebi dialect" with some Italian language .
It’s Phoenician
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Yes they often forget to mention the phoenicians that they are also the owners of the land in north africa and they have occupied parts of europe including Italy as we know their most famous leaders hannibal and their origin from the arabian peninsula they came from the old days so there are words similar to the Phoenician language in arabic and maghreb dialect and also amazigh people use alphabet originating from the middle east
according to the monuments in north africa its ancient inhabitants have a connection to the civilizations that were on the middle east
@@Lion-qv7ns owner of the land? Where did get that from?? Myths, some of them came as refugees to North Africa,, amazigh gave them a place to stay, and Hannibal's mom was an amazigh, intermarriage was very common. Maltese sounds like maghrébin Arabic mixed with Italian , in fact most of the words he said can be traced to Arabic (North African prononciation) , nothing to do with Phoenician.
Same !
Im Proud Arab Algerian🇩🇿🇩🇿
I am Italian and I graduated in Arabic language with my thesis on Tunisian dialect. I understood 100% of the speech. On top of that, I worked 2 years in Malta and I also took a short language course! Congratulations to Sean, you are really great in Maltese despite not being Maltese!!!
He said he was born in the UK but is a Matlese speaker, which probably means he is ethnically Matlese with Matlese parents and mother-tongue. No British or an ethnic English man would introduce themselves with: "I was born in the U.K." Usually a comment of where one is born denotes not being from there, especially in introductions.
@@JupiterMoon7But he’s a British citizen for sure, what do you mean “no British would”? You can be British and of Maltese descent. Malta used to belong to Great Britain until no long ago.
انت مهف برشا هه
He said he was Maltese in the beginning.
As a Moroccan who knows some Italian words, I can say that I literally understood 95% of Maltese. I'm totally adding Malta in my MUST places to visit LIST..
No please (I'm Italian), you moroccans ruin any place where you go
Hello, I transcribed an old malteese song in arabic here it is ua-cam.com/video/tVq1HYnPNFc/v-deo.html
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dont
i live here and it sucks
@@ashbri we will go no matter what
maltese sounded like a tunisian born and raised in italy but learned tunisian dialect from his parents this is weird wow
Because historically it is 😂
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That’s because Malta was ruled by Tunisia. That’s a fact
I have a Lebanese friend who tells me Maltese sounds exactly like a Lebanese person speaking to a child in baby terminology.
It sounds more like Libyan
I’m Maltese. How proud I felt while I was watching this video. Well done to you all and thank for appreciating our language.
It’s so similar to our darija Moroccan omg I was shocked to know we have same language
I'm Algerian and it's pretty crazy when i think how much we share together,i really wonder how much culture we all share together
We have to be more realistic and tell the truth.
Every person brings the Maltese language close to his dialect because it is very similar to the Arabic language and is very similar to the dialects of the Maghreb, and it also has some similarities with the Arab Mashreq in some words, especially the lack of pronunciation of the qaf, in general the dialects of the Maghreb are very similar, but in fact it is more a dialect close to the Maltese language It is the Tunisian dialect.
For example in the Maltese language and the Tunisian dialect:
''inħobbok''
''nagħmel''
Algerian dialect and Moroccan dialect:
''nibghik''
''ndir''
Libyan dialect:
''nibbik''
''ndir''
Arab Mashreq dialects:
'b'ahibbak'
''b'aghmil''
In Standard Arabic:
ohobbok
afghal
Beatiful language
It is very very similar to Arabic and specially the algerian\ Moroccan , Tunisia and lybian dialects.
I am of Maltese Heritage and a 1st generation English speaker. I was at a Palestinian wedding & the table asked about me. When I said my heritage is Maltese & explained the language they asked my to speak it. They were absolutely pleasantly shocked! And a good time was secured from that moment on.
Im from malta and im maltese and this made me proud of my language ❤️
Anka jien !
I like the Maltese guy very much, his personality is amazing, hope he's doing well 👍🏻
Same🙌🏼
same he is funny
Yes he's a good guy
This was so interesting to watch as a Maltese person. From personal experience, when I visited Morocco, it was a bit surprising when our tour guides understood what me and my friends were talking about in Maltese. They thought we weren't Europeans since our language is so similar to theirs :D
Are Maltese? I think Maltese is closer to Hebrew than Arabic...I like visit to your country 😊😊👍👍
@@living_peace lol nice joke, you got more?
@@living_peace just because Hebrew is close to arabic ..
Anyway Maltese is clearly closer to Arabic because of you know .. history
@@living_peace Are you joking ?? How come its closer to Hebrew and the semitic words in Maltese are all from arabic lol
@@living_peace Closer to hebrew? lol how? Most Maltese cant even understand Hebrew :P
I love the fact that we speak Maltese without even realize it 💞😃 🇲🇦
aw siehbi kif int
@@superpunchie2540 I'm ok and you 😁
@@lionne8538 mhux ħażin grazzi
@@superpunchie2540 😊😊
I'm Tunisian & *We* speak (a form of) Maltese too. Minus the Italian pollution!
I was so pleased to find this! I’m an 82 year old English Lady who learnt Maltese over the years from my in laws and travelling back and forth. Recently I took a friend who fell and broke her hip so we had 5 weeks there while I looked after her. I spent the time talking to locals. It was wonderful. I’m thrilled I understood all of your programme especially as there are no Maltese in the part of the UK I live. I only get the chance to speak and listen if I’m there. Thank you SO much..
As salam alaykoum my sister
Let's just appreciate how friendly is the Maltese guy
As a Moroccan I find his face so fimiliars he looks like the principal of my school i swaer he's lovely as well
Yes but be aware that most Maltese are not as friendly like him unfortunately. Especially with people from Arabic or islamic world
@@samleboeuf6993 we got used to it whenever I talk to a non Muslim non Arab I have to expain myself 😂💔💔💔😭
As a Libyan, I can say that I understood up to 85% of Maltese, it’s a real mix of the North African dialect, I used to live with Tunisian flatmates when I was in Europe, and whenever they ask for a hotspot, they be like “ partagili” and “ connectili” I think it’s quite the same how Maltese use verbs, to mix the Arab with Latin and then you get the verb !
Interesting!
And regarding the last Maltese proverb you said which was about “your heart goes where your legs lead you” in Libya we say “ yemchou errejlin win yheb il-khater” 🇱🇾❤️
God job guys, and thank you for enlightening us about Maltese language, now I wanna go to Malta for sure 🔥🙏🏻
Tunisian dialect is simply the most beautiful in North Africa
Greetings from Lebanon 🇱🇧
why i'm interested in knowing ?
It basically sounds like a foreigner who learned tunisian arabic haha
I will be visiting Malta this summer hopefully can't wait for it!
Greetings from Algiers♥️
It sounds like Libyans too 😭 literally the same thing
As a French and Algerian Arabic speaker i understood almost every thing
@Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi cut the crap and enough with this sick mind full of conspiracy theories of yours
We humans are created to get know each others and to learn from each others
@Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi what idols that we gonna to worship?!!! We worship only Allah and we are aware of everything don't worry
Don't forget the command of Allah "وخلقناكم شعوبا وقبائل لتعارفوا ان أكرمكم عند الله اتقاكم"
He creates us in order to re-know each others and this is possible only through knowing the languages and dialects of one another
@Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi give proof of what you say
@Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent [person] has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.
@@mini_jkooki_minkookieeeee I like your comment I totally agree with you.salam
Excellent video! I’ll never forget standing in the airport in Malta and looking up and reading this sign - Stanna wara la linea safra. Wait behind (Arabic) the line (Italian) yellow (Arabic)!
You have a good memory, though the exact spelling is "Stenna wara l-linja safra". I'm Maltese.......
@@luiginocm Thanks!
Stanna wara la linea safra , The same context in the Algerian east hhhhh.
Stanna wara is the same in levantine dialects also 'wait behind'
😂🤣😂😂🤣
I'm half Maltese and my Saudi Arabian roommate at University in England was shocked and smiling when I started saying the Maltese numbers lol. Anyway, I wish I was at Cafe Cordina now buying ice cream.
U pastizzi...
I’m from Syria and I understood around 90% of the paragraphs
For me Maltese language sounded close to the Tunisian accent
Much love to all Mediterranean brothers and sisters
Same .. I am from iraq 🇮🇶
Me to l am from Yemen
قريبة من اللهجة الليبية اكتر العديد من العائلات المالطية من اصول طرابلسية
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The Maltese language is the same as the Tunisian dialect
As an Italian-Algerian, i can understand 90% of what he said.
In fact, the Maltese language is similar to Tunisian with Italian, but has an influence on the dialects of the Maghreb and the dialects of the Levant.
@@njoumellil people from the east of Algeria have almost the same dialect as Tunisians , first time i spoke with a friend from the far east it was a bit hard for me to understand all of his vocabularies because I'm from far west so I understood morrocans better .
@@marsdz2271
It is strange to you how difficult it is for you to understand the eastern dialects, your western dialects are much more difficult.
@@marsdz2271
Yes, the dialects of eastern Algeria, such as Souk Ahras, Tebessa, and Oued Souf are Tunisian dialects, but the Annaba dialect is slightly different and has an Algerian character.
@@njoumellil true
Glad you chose Sean as the Maltese speaker, it was fun to hear him share his language & culture with the rest! 🇲🇹
Back in 1968 a group of friends and I went camping at Chenoua plage (~50 miles from Algiers) where we happened to meet two young Maltese guys playing music. We sympathized, had dinner together and played some music. We were happily surprised by the language similarity. A day later they went off to wherever they planned to visit. These were the days where borders were practically open and hate was not common. I long for those days.
Hello from Morocco
This is amazing. It's so easy to understand you .
As a native Maltese, living in Malta, I can identify that the Maltese guy speaks it VERY well, but has lived abroad and with our arab cousins (minor accent shift). His pronunciation was over 95% perfect. Love this Video showing how similar our languages have remained, albeit slightly differring over the ages, almost seeing the evolution of the languages.
Yes, having been so long in the Arab world and being fluent in Arabic it’s probably easy for him to get mixed up with some things and perhaps make mistakes in Maltese ... thinking it’s correct Maltese but actually using an Arabic construction
@@SR-jx8yu To me , he's like a European-looking Arab speaking Maltese
The Maltese language is derived from the extinct Sicilian Arabic dialect. In fact, the Maltese language is different from what it was. The ancient Maltese used to speak the Arabic alphabet fluently. I was surprised to hear Cantellina’s poem in the old Maltese dialect as if it were a poem in the Tunisian dialect, but at present the Maltese cannot pronounce Some Arabic alphabet well.
I encourage our Maltese brothers to learn Arabic dialects and the classical Arabic language, and learn the origin of the words in their language and where they are derived from.
It seems that the Maltese are very fortunate that they can learn Arabic easily.
The Arabic language is the most difficult language in the world. It has more than twelve million words. This is Standard Arabic only, without mentioning the dialects.
There's a bit of struggle imo. Maybe they're over enunciating so people may have an easier time understanding. But definitely one of the best if not the best non native speakers I've heard.
His knowledge of Arabic helps him communicate better with Arabic speakers but that doesn't influence his Maltese. He probably uses English as his main language, his Maltese pronunciation is on point but slightly Anglicized (the r's). There are Maltese born and bred folks who speak the same way. I think maybe "ikkonvertjaw" instead of "ikkonvertew" is a bit strange.
My first language is Spanish and I took Arabic in college and even just knowing a little fusha helped me understand a surprising amount! i agree with Yaser Maltese feels like just basically Arabic with some Romance mixed in lol
In fact Spanish, Maltese and North African Arabic dialects share the same major two Aspects : Arabaising Latin words and Spanishing, Italianising or Berberising Arab hard sounds.
@@Pidro__ I'm moroccan, and I love how you described it.
@@alaeaft
Thanks.
Spain , southern Italy and Portugal and Malta were part of the Islamic emirate , so that is probably why Malta has a similar language to Arabic , apparently Malta and Arabic are very similar , I think the Malta language is a mixture of Italian , old Latin and Arabic and Spanish
Spanish is a wonderful language, I speak French, English plus Arabic, with a little bit of Spanish, glad to be led here. Wish you all the best youtubefam
Great video! I'm half Maltese but grew up in England, speaking only English...This has made me want to learn Maltese!!
I watched your video a second time with delight & we share a lot with the maltese even proverbs !!!! I visited Malta & felt at home from day one , highly recommend ...Thanks Bahador for the upload
It sounds like he's speaking Libyan dialect not Maltese lol its almost identical thats crazy, great video 🇱🇾🇲🇹
He probably was
Yeah, Maltese sounds like Libyan Arabic 😊
Catar non non non UK bé. Tunisa. Sa pais. Bé. Irehab UK Trémoille bé irehab UK non gbe catar UK dégage
As an Algerian, I'm so happy to see this kind of video that highlights our common heritage in the Mediterrane see area. The Maltese guy is so nice and so cultivated.
Yeah its our common mideteranean history tgat made us have close languages and perhaps culture our world is the medeteranean region not africa and not the arabs of middle east
Common heritage ??? Malta used to belong to Tunisia.
Nina Park Well don't we talk the same dialect? eager to appropriate anything u find as if it'll make u rich or something WE UNDERSTAND MALTESE AND WE HAVE IN COMMON WITH IT AS MUCH AS U DO STOP YOUR CHILDISH BEHAVIOR
@@amrdel2730 we are north African we are mediteranean
@@ninapark4342 yeah with the help of whom ? Of course with the Algerian pirates don t forget that history
I am 🇵🇭 Filipino and 🇲🇹 Maltese. Thanks for sharing and shedding light on the beautiful Maltese language 😌 and so cool how North Africans understand it too!
I'm an English Teacher in Malta and today I did a lesson on the Maltese language and UA-cam decided to recommend this to me :)
All participants were excellent and smart.
so I am a teenager from Tunisia and I speak, along with arabic, French and English and when I speak casually I would find myself often using verbs and terms from the french and "Arab-ify" them and I sound exactly like the Maltese spoken in this vid. This led me to believe that maltese eveolved exactly how me and other teenagers in my country would speak. For example when he said "yconvertiw" which is the Maltese verb for "to convert" it sounds exactly how I would express the same verb in my daily/casual speech.
I'm tunisian and I only know like 8 french-tunisian all day words
omg that's true! that's how we tunisian youngsters speak
'Ychatew'..... it's they are chatting .... boi I was astonished myself about how similar it is to our youngsters way of speaking
Yeah, totally agree, as a Libyan who used to live with her Tunisian flatmate abroad I can relate!
Sometimes she was asking me to get her a hotspot on and then she be like “bartajili” and “connectili” 👌🏻😂
I find that so ironic, that despite all these centuries of disconnection between Malta and Mainland Tunisia/Carthage, the languages in both have evolved in a very similar way. I only wish that we keep making English more widely used instead of French in Tunisia. We would honestly connect much better with Malta and the rest of the world. Fuck french, sincerely from Carthage.
That’s really enjoyable to watch! Loved it immensely! Well done guys ❤️
I’ve had idea of similarities between Maltese and Arabic especially the Arabic Darija of the MAGHREB. I am Moroccan British and I can easily say that Maltese language is as close as to my native language with the help of my knowledge of Latin languages. Thank you all for this beautiful experience. It gives me more pleasure and willing to visit Malta 🇲🇹 in future inshallah ❤️
I’m half 🇲🇹 and half 🇵🇭. I mostly understand Tagalog but I wanna learn Maltese. I never knew how similar it was to Arabic. Seeing the North Africans understand it is so cool! Thanks for shedding light on my Maltese heritage sir 😌✨
Malta is a historically Tunisian territory the Maltese accent is the closest to the Tunisian accent besides Maltese Arabic is Sicilian Arabic which was also a territory of the kingdom of Iffriqya of Africa therefore of Tunisia
@@wewewowo960 add to that the andalusiyan arabic that appeared in Spain during the reign of the Umayad and nasrid empires
Bravo to that Maltese guy, he has a very energetic personality, and has a good knowledge of Arabic and Maltese. Nice video as well, keep up the good work.
As an Algerian i think Maltease is the easiest language to learn as a second language.
Loved the video guys, it was Awesome !
You spelled Maltese wrong.
@@malteseguy8451 my bad 😅.
Maltese! 😁😉
Tbh I'm currently learning it and it's not as easy as you might think well at least for me!
@@davidstanley4962 of course it wouldn't be easy for a non Arabic speaker. But for Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian it's easy to understand, it's almost the same dialect added up by some Italian which make it some charming.
@@malteseguy8451 hhh the Maltese is wrong Arabic
Im Sudanese and I understood 90% of the content mainly based on my Arabic knowledge!
Amazing video, such good vibes!
Sean is such a great guy, i love how he's explaining things
The Moroccan lady has such a beautiful accent and soothing voice!
👍
She looks like a Turkish Actress i forgot her name
@@bouaoudjamohamedelamine7681 biter from ask memnu right? :P
I think so 😂
@@bouaoudjamohamedelamine7681 not beren saat but she really looks turkish
I don't speak any Arabic, but at least I could spot all the words of romance origin.
Wonderful sequence. Joy of sharing language. Thank you Bahador. 😃
This is GREAT, we got a Linguist to help map out connections between the Languages, is like the start of a New Chapter for this Channel. I hope there are a vast # of linguists willing to help your Channel to do this with other Languages. It's going to be interesting to see more explain connections of this sort.
Every time it gets better and more professional, the way you convoy knowledge in a very fun show.
At the end of each episode I learn more, but more importantly I gain this pleasant feeling of connectedness and brotherhood to the rest of the world by just simply digging for common roots in our languages. Thanks.
True
From a Maltese here.
First of all I would like to say well done to Sean and all other N.African representatives. However, I must point out that the displayed Maltese texts had a number of spelling mistakes, and at some points Sean’s way of speaking was not really how we spell it (such as jithenna, since the h is a silent letter, and in fact is not written as jitħenna but as jithenna). Maybe because he has been influenced by living abroad.
Another point which I would like to add is about the second paragraph of text (the history-based one). The Arab period in Malta lasted between 870 till 1091, when then Malta became Norman. As documented, Malta was emptied (although debateable) and then inhabited again by the Arabs from around 1048. Thus, the Maltese were themselves the Arabs then, hence not a situation where the Arabs shared their religion and mixed with the Maltese, but they were the same people, Arabs.
(One can argue that Malta used to be like an extension of Sicily, but with its own uniqueness. In fact, the Maltese language evolved from Siculo-Arabic which was spoken in both Sicily and the Maltese archipelago. As time progressed, it was lost in Sicily due to influence from Romance language, while it remained and was able to develop both independently and with other influences here in Malta.)
The mentioned date, 1249 (in the displayed text in the video) is the approximate date when it is thought that Islam was abolished from Malta. Muslims converted to Christianity, while other were sent to Lucera in Italy.
Thanks, and well done.
Such an interesting video. As a Maltese, it feels so good that people around the world can somehow understand a semitic language which mixes English, Italian, Arabic and many other languages together. In fact Kċina comes Kucina in Italian meaning Kitchen! 😊
The base is Arabic. It’s basically an Arabic dialect, for the most part. If Moroccan Darija-with all of its Amazigh and French words-can be classified as an Arabic dialect, then Maltese is absolutely an Arabic dialect.
As an Egyptian Arabic speaker married to an Algerian, a lot of it was intelligible. But to a standard Egyptian Arabic speaker this would be a lot tougher
Makes sense
@@Noorinvests lol
@@Noorinvests 🤦🏻♂️Such a troll comment.
@@ilosayan it’s not a troll comment, you’re just not African.
@@ilosayan africa is for Africans, if your recall, your Caucasian arabic people from Morocco decided to attack the west African Songhai Muslim empire and collapse it in 1590, and then you collaborated with the English and other European countries to run the slave trade
Hi a fluent Maltese speaker here from Malta, this is such a interesting video and also the word "minħabba" means "because" so the whole sentences in english is: "It has been half a year since I came to Malta because of COVID." The word "Pjeċir" in the text is actually spelled "pjaċir" and "Tgħiex" is actually spelled "Tgħix". :) Overall, well done!
Pjecir tintuza imma. Varjanti ta’ pjacir, biss mhux standard.
@@mattiamele3015 Imma f'dan il-kaz le il-kelma pjecir ma tintużax
@@acidicsalt7214 Ifhem jien dejjem pjacir ghidt, però naf li hemm min jghid pjecir ukoll, bhal dan tal-video. Ma rridx immerik.
@@mattiamele3015 Hekk ma nafx issa ghax personalment lil hadd ma smajt lil xi hadd jghid pjecir minflok pjacir :/
Thanks for explaning that word " minhabba"
Dan kelma was the most difficult for me as algerian. Lol
That's it I'm moving to Malta 😂 great opportunity to learn a 4th language so easily! Great video. Huge fan of Sean 🤗
It’s VERYYY RARE that Libyans get to participate in yt videos, i am super happy they get to participate more!!🤍🇱🇾
I'm Algerien and i understood most of what he said ..
As an Algerian I understood like 99% of Maltese, but I have to say it is way closer to Tunisian dialect.
Yeah like im tunisian and like i understood almost everything. It even sounds similar Tunisian like the accent and everything-
It feels like its a mixture between italian and north-african dialects
Yeah like im Tunisian and i understood almost everything. It even sounded so similar to Tunisian like the accent and everything-
It feels like a mixture between italian and north-african dialects
تقولو الراجل تاعها في تونس؟ 😁
حنا نقولو راجلها
Most east Algerian cities too
yh the pronounciation of the words is more tunisian
Thank you Guys ,really appreciate your contribution
Really love it. I love foreign languages too. I am an amazigh from Morocco. Living in The Netherlands. You did a good job all. Thanks
This was a great video!! As a moroccan, I knew that Maltese language is close to Maghrebi Arabic, but i didn't expect that I would understand most of it, so I think what helps is knowing the consonant shifts and the alphabet. Also, the Maltese guy was amazing and happy to expose us his beautiful language.
as a Tunisian, I can tell that I almost understood everything (reading the sentences was very helpful)
Greetings from New York!
I am from Turkey with Syrian background! North African Arabic was always a challenge for me except for Sudan, Egypt and Libya. I practice Fusha as well! Maltese sounded as Arabic with Romance influance in the Grammer, i did understood the most of the contents in the sample scripts, Maltese speaker's hints became handy, as well!it was interesting Thank you for sharing..
nice ..thanks for sharing
Sean has such a loving vibe! The kind of guy I'd like to listen to explain things :)
Sean is such a great guy and simply a joy to be around.
Also I cannot emphasize this enough, Tunisian and Maltese sound extremely similar it's crazy! Great video.
Spain , southern Italy and Portugal and Malta were part of the Islamic emirate , so that is probably why Malta has a similar language to Arabic , apparently Malta and Arabic are very similar , I think the Malta language is a mixture of Italian , old Latin and Arabic and Spanish
I knew that she were Tunisian before she spoke. Thank you for those videos Bahadors and it is nice to see all of our neighbourhood.
Really enjoyed , it's a very interesting language to know since I am Algerian I find it very easy and fun , thank you for sharing this amazing video with us 🙏🏻🤍
As a Maltese, I found this video super interesting!
I'm from Algeria, and I have understood everything, have you understood what were the North Africans saying?
I was surprised that you guys say Allah ibarek
I thought this was exclusive to Algerians
@@Pidro__ I wouldn't say I fully understood it but yes whenever I hear arabic I do pick up some words here and there.
@@Pidro__ also I think you would find it even easier to understand the Gozitan accent/dialect. I'm actually from Gozo, the sister island of Malta.
@@dianegrech473
Is it a Maltese or Italian island?
I'm curious to hear this dialect!
OMG the first time in my life I feel I can understand a language without being able to speak it 😅!! ..shout out to my north africains and maltese people
I was in Malta in 2019, very fascinating place, loved the weather, the people and of course the food. 🇲🇹❤️
You did more for the people of earth than most governments and organizations combined.thank you Bahador from Tunisia
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I was born and raised in Germany but my familiy is from Lebanon. So I learned Arabic through my parents but even as a non-Northafrican I understood almost 50% of Maltese. If not more! I am really fascinated. By the way, Sean seems like such a cool guy. Very friendly and always with a smile on his face. I wish him all the best.
I love each time their faces lit up when they understood something in Maltese!
Thank you for doing this in English. You all have given insights into your regional similarities and differences while converging on Maltese. The scholar in your group is impressive. Perhaps you all have illuminated a path of study for my next lifetime. Shkran.
Really interesting video. 👍 Greetings from Malta! 🇲🇹
Sean has such a positive and friendly attitude!! And he's very informed on the subject.
Greetings brothers and sisters in North Africa!!
Greetings!
Greetings my Assyrian brother!
Greetings! Azul! Shlama alikum!
Shlama 'alakhun akhi, from a Riffian. I love Assyrian people. It's a shame you got dispersed all over the world because of all the conflicts in your homelands.
Hello my serian friend. 🖐️
I really enjoyed this . 👏👏👏 i have Libyans friend and Egyptian as well . The Egyptian person speaks Maltese as me and they say it is very similar to them . Maybe you will consider to bring an Egyptian person as-well .
I LOVE this video thanks, soukran,hafek, Im an moroccan amazigh , born and rased in the Netherlands.
I love the vibe of your videos!! It's connecting people globally. It also seems like they build friendships through the process. I sure hope your participants end up maintaining the frienship you started between them. It would be great to see. ☺😊
I've waited for such a video for years! Since I've known Bahador's concept and his work on this channel basically! And I couldn't be more satisfied! We had participants from all over the Maghreb region of North Africa along with the Maltese speaker whose knowledge of Arabic was the cherry on the cake! Everyone was amazing! Whether at connecting the dots and guessing almost everything, or at giving adequate comments here and there. Thank you Bahador, Sean and to all my North African people for this incredible video ❤
Not even from the Maghreb or Malta. But as a Belgian I am very glad I found your video in my recommendation! Very interesting. Thanks
استمتعت جداً باللقاء .. شكراً لكم من اليمن
Maltese uses a lot of standard Arabic tbh, and their accent isn’t very strong like Algerian or Moroccan. It sounds more like Tunisian and Libyan, which are almost 100% intelligible to Middle Easterners.. so yes Maltese is fairly easy to understand even for Middle Easterners, the only issue is the Italian/French/English words.
Tunisian sounds like a beautiful mixture of Maghrebi & Levantine Arabic
@@Dingleberry_123
Yes they do have a slight levantine accent in their speech, but I believe you also hear this accent in Tunisian and Libyan anyways.
@@Ahmed-pf3lg Yes this is true
Us Maltese can find it difficult to understand Libyan/Tunisian/Algerian/Morrocan etc when we hear them speak. Meanwhile they can understand us 90% of the time
@@qwertt-tg8rd
Well that’s because Maltese is only like 60% Arabic.
While Arabic is almost 100% Arabic or arabized words (even if their french/italian the pronunciation becomes Arabized).
I'm tunisian who never visited Malta and never heard Maltese language before. I found it astonishing that I understood about 60 percent of what the Maltese guy said from the start. This was very entertaining and informative video. And I feel very motivated to visit Malta now. Much love to all the participants. especially the maltese guy for sharing his culture and personal experiences with us. He has a great personality .
My late father-in-law, who was Maltese, told me that, if he chose his vocabulary carefully and restricted himself to words of Arabic origin as much as possible, Tunisians would understand him.
Absolutely loved the video! One of your best, Bahador!
I love this Sean guy ... he's a great teacher ...
Thank you! Glad you liked the video! Sean
Everybody seemed so knowledgeable. Fantastic video!
ما شاء الله
Bahador
As a Spanish and French speaker who knows FusHa and Moroccan Darija this was so wonderful to watch
🥰🥰🥰
It was really enjoyable and another reminder of how culturally connected we all are
Thank you
رائع وجميل هذآ اللقاء
Very nice
Merci Beaucoup
When i was a kid i have played with maltes kids back then in malta, i understood 60% of what they saying I’m from libya big love to slema❤️🇱🇾
I am a native german (Switzerland) speaker. And I think it's amazing how related our languages are. Even if you change continents.
It's astonishing!
True. I’m a native Dutch/Flemish speaker and I understand 60% German. But German from Switzerland hits different. I understand like 20% only.
Actually malta is closer to north africa than europe except sicily
@@robinmangala3536 big ass chrüsi müsi
@@younessboulehia2749 ?
@@robinmangala3536 haha in CH DE it means a big mess
Thank you for the interesting videos. Great job, every time I do really enjoy watching them. I've been to Malta and as someone who speaks Arabic it was very easy to communicate (well, English did help, too :) ) and understand. I am surprised how much I could pick up now from what was said. Please keep up the good work, Bahador.
That was so interesting to watch,'ve only heard about Malta a few times through some UA-cam videos,ND it's shocking to discover how similar it is actually to Arabic, especially north African dialects,also I wanna just say that I truly liked the Maltese guy,he seems to be such a nice & educated man
One of the most interesting videos I've watched.
Maltese is similar to Maghrebian dialect since it comes from Arabic and have been influenced by Tunisians. Algerian have more difficult to understand it but we can easily understand more with writing like 70% or 80%
Excellent work Bahador thanks for this video 🙏🙏 lot of love to our
Love to our Maltese cousins 🇩🇿🇲🇦🇱🇾🇹🇳❤️🇲🇹
I'm algerian and literally understood everything...
@@last_hope it depends Algerian but yea we can understand it
I'm Algerian (extrem ouest near morrocan borders) and i understood 99%
I am Tunisian. It is true that the Tunisian dialect is very close to the Maltese language, but all the words in the dialects of the Maghreb are known and similar. They can understand the Maltese language as easily as we understand it.
@@njoumellil yea of course we can understand it.
I am Maltese and I really enjoyed watching the video. Some observations though if you allow me:
- "Xi ħaġa biex niekol" is not quite the way we say it. Rather, we say "Xi ħaġa x'niekol"
- "Kielet fix-xogħol": We say "Kielet fuq ix-xogħol", or closer to your sentence, "Kielet ix-xogħol". These three variations would sound very funny if they had to be translated literally into English. "Fix-xogħol" would translate to in or inside the work. "Fuq ix-xogħol" would mean on, on top, or over the work. "Ix-xogħol" means the work, that is she ate the work. As I said, although in English they would sound funny, "fuq ix-xogħol" and "ix-xogħol" both make sense in Maltese. while "fix-xogħol", in this context, does not.
- Pjeċir is colloquial. Pjaċir is more accurate in my opinion. Like in Arabic, vowels are less important than consonants. And although Malta is very small, just 320 sq km, we have different dialects. Probably, "Pjeċir" is used in other towns, and not where I live.
- "Qelbu". The correct word is "Qalbu"
- When compared to Arabic, Maltese is not spoken as fast.
- In Arabic, iljum means "today". In Maltese, "today" is illum, while il-jum means "the day"
- When I visited Lebanon, Lebanese were astonished by how much Maltese and Lebanese are close, especially, Lebanese spoken in the eastern part of Lebanon. It would be interesting to repeat this with people from Lebanon and Egypt.
- I think the Moroccan young lady (sorry I couldn't get her name) made a very valid observation regarding persons able to speak both Arabic and a Latin language, would find Maltese easier to learn/understand.
- On a general note, there are some orthographic mistakes. But on the whole, well done. The participants did an amazing job. I really enjoyed watching the video.
- Should anyone of you, participating in this video, decide to visit Malta, I'd be glad to meet you.
Kadjazairia nefham klamehome melih.
I am Lebanese and at one I started feeling that the Maltese language is more closer to us than it is close to north Africans I swear I understood almost everything
What an interesting and amazing video! Mr. Bridge International, thanks a lot for your time and work. You did it again!
I'm from Egypt and I understood a great part of the text! Except for the Italian/French part, the rest was a breeze. Maybe having friends from other North African countries helped me a little, but it's not hard for an Egyptian to get it. Thank you for the super interesting video!
Im half Moroccan and speak English, French and Arabic and my partner is half Maltese who speaks English and a bit of French. When we first got together and went to Malta she was so shocked and confused that I could understand a surprising amount of Maltese from street signs and road names to conversations her Nan was having. I suddenly felt much much closer to Malta than I had ever thought would be possible
As a Maltese it's really cool to see someone else talk it😅😅
Vera !
@@goombrick1239 😅
Lol
Ya rayeh win msafer troh taaya we tweli ..
Do u undrestand that !!?
@@sandalisalim1075 what!!
Thank you sooooo much ❤️ This is gold.
Maltese is a mixture of English, Italian, Arabic, it's a nice language to learn
Greetings from Malta
Maltese is arabic polluted with italian