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| It is very hard to judge the roots of a spoken language like Malti or Lebanese that have both been influenced by Arabic (not to mention Egyptian) over the lst 6000 years. | ||||||||||||
| However, I try in this section to show common words in Malti and Lebanese versus their equivalent in Arabic, | ||||||||||||
| and I leave it up to the reader to judge whether Malti's roots are Arabic or Lebanese (read Phoenician)! | ||||||||||||
| English | Malti | Lebanese | Arabic | |||||||||
| cross-eyed | werċ | ورش | ؟؟؟ | |||||||||
| crook | ħajjen | هيّن | ؟؟؟ | |||||||||
| face | wiċċ | وشّ | ؟؟؟ | |||||||||
| bluff | qarraq | قرّق | ؟؟؟ | |||||||||