Aspects of a Maltese Dialect: Iż-Żurrieqi

Description This book includes:  A small corpus of about 1,500 words in Standard Maltese and the Żurrieq Dialect A sample of around 140 words in the Żurrieq Dialect compared with their cognates in various Arabic dialects  An analysis of the formant frequencies extracted from the spectrograms of a few pairs of words in the Żurrieq Dialect in order to detect underlying “emphasis” found in Arabic A comparison of the Żurrieq Dialect with Old Maltese A commentary