Gozitan dialects

Dialect of Maltese
Gozitan
għawdxi
Pronunciation[/ˈaːw.t͡ʃɪ/]
Native toMalta
RegionGozo
Native speakers
About 32,000
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Semitic
    • West Semitic
      • Central Semitic
        • Arabic
          • Maghrebi Arabic
            • Siculo-Arabic
              • Maltese
                • Gozitan
Dialects
  • Għarb
  • Xewkija
Writing system
Latin (Maltese alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologgozo1238
Linguasphere12-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.[1]

Vocabulary

Comparison of some words in Standard Maltese and in the Gozitan dialects:[2]

English Maltese Gozitan
pills pilloli pinuri
shy staħa regħex
biscuit biskuttel fettul
mattress saqqu mitraħ
Gozo Għawdex Għawdix
dizzy sturdament mejt
bunch of għanqud xenqul
small table tavolina mejdina
internal hall door antiporta boxxla
to spoil someone fsied ħajm
silver foil fidda smontor

See also

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett". www.gwida.mt (in Maltese). 26 January 2019. Retrieved 2023-04-14.

Further reading

  • Aquilina, Joseph, and B.S.J. Isserlin. 1981. A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese. Volume I: Gozo. Leeds: B.S.J. Isserlin.
  • Farrugia, Ruben. 2021. ‘The Acoustic Vowel Space of Gozitan Naduri and Sannati Dialects’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 197–211. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Gwida Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej. 2021. ‘Language Questionnaire for Gozo, Malta’. Folia Orientalia 58: 111–89
  • Klimiuk, Maciej. 2022. ‘Vowel Length in Maltese Dialects of Gozo’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 213–27. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej, and Ruben Farrugia. 2022. ‘A Text in the Maltese Dialect of Sannat (Gozo) with Grammatical Remarks’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 381–96. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2019. ‘Dialectology in Practice: Notes from Fieldwork in Gozo’. In Arabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research, edited by Werner Arnold and Maciej Klimiuk, 23–32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022a. ‘Fishing and Cyclone Cutting: A Text from the Area of Għasri within the Dialect Continuum of Gozo (Malta)’. Mediterranean Language Review 29: 19–52.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022b. ‘The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks’. The Israel Oriental Studies Annual 22: 145–77.
  • Lipnicka, Maria. 2022. ‘Pausal Diphthongisation in Gozitan Dialects Compared to Zaḥlé, Lebanon’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 229–41. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
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