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Gozitan dialects

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.

Vocabulary

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

See also

References

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. ‘’. 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. ‘’. Folia Orientalia 58: 111–89
  • Klimiuk, Maciej. 2022. ‘’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 213–27. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej, and Ruben Farrugia. 2022. ‘’. 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 Israel Oriental Studies Annual 22: 145–77.
  • Lipnicka, Maria. 2022. ‘’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 229–41. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.