/library/oar/handle/123456789/28108 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:05:12 GMT 2025-11-13T14:05:12Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28326 Title: The Maltese and the Arabic dialects : an approach from linguistic geography Abstract: This article is the translation and revision of the paper 'Maltesisch: Sprachgeschichtliche und areallinguistische Aspekte' read in the 5th symposium on languages in contact in Europe, at Mannheim 1982. The subject of this article is Maltese as a language of different strata which have deposited themselves out of several groups of languages, respectively dialects. Description: This article is the translation and revision of the paper 'Maltesisch: Sprachgeschichtliche und areallinguistische Aspekte' read in the 5th symposium on languages in contact in Europe, at Mannheim 1982. Wed, 01 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/28326 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28324 Title: Dun Karm, the national poet of Malta Abstract: The year 1986, Malta commemorated the 25th anniversary since the death of its national poet, Dun Karm Psaila, popularly and officially known as Dun Karm, perhaps the most significant Maltese artist. Therefore, the article is written in memory of him and his works. Description: The first document was published in 1986 to commemorate the 25th anniversary since the death of Dun Karm Psaila. The second document was published in 1988 and it commemorates the 27th anniversary since the death of Dun Karm Psaila. Wed, 01 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/28324 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28323 Title: Interferenze Inglesi sulla lingua Maltese Abstract: At the turn of the 1800, the British became sovereign of the Maltese Islands. The British have impacted the Maltese in so many ways, including the language itself. In fact, the English language is the 2nd official language in Malta. It is spoken fluently and widely. But English, as other languages such as Italian, has made an impact on daily conversation in Maltese. The author shall continue to explain further in this article. Wed, 01 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/28323 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/28322 Title: A survey of Maltese nicknames I : the nicknames of Naxxar, 1832 Abstract: Nicknaming practices have increasingly become the focus of attention of psychologists and anthropologists, of social historians and linguists. The former see in them an incisive tool for analyzing the psychology of a community; for the latter they represent, very often, both the earliest documentation as well as uninterrupted evidence of development of important aspects of history and of language. In the particular case of the Mediterranean littoral it turns out that nicknaming systems constitute one of the common features of otherwise widely divergent cultural tendencies. The author in this article is aiming to talk about Maltese nicknames, focusing especially on the language and history. Wed, 01 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/28322 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z