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Gozitan
għawdxi
Pronunciation
[/ˈaːw.t͡ʃɪ/]
Native to
Malta
Region
Gozo
Native speakers
About 32,000
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic
Pre-Hilalian[1]
Sicilian Arabic
Maltese
Gozitan
Dialects
Għarb
Xewkija
Writing system
Latin (Maltese alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
gozo1238
Linguasphere
12-AAC-cag
Gozo Island, Malta
The Gozitan dialects are rural dialects of Maltese spoken in the island of Gozo. The vowel shift of *ā (phonologically a) to o or u is their main differentiating trait.[2]
^Martine Vanhove, « De quelques traits prehilaliens en maltais », in: Peuplement et arabisation au Maghreb cccidental : dialectologie et histoire, Casa Velazquez - Universidad de Zaragoza (1998), pp.97-108
^ Klimiuk, Maciej; Lipnicka, Maria (2022). Cohen, Yoram (ed.). "The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks". Telling of Olden Kings. The IOS Annual (22). Leiden: Brill: 146–147. ISBN 978-90-04-52679-2. OCLC 1350843539 – via The Wikipedia Library.
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