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Originally Posted by etoile noir
ghaliex edric? u x'int taghmel hawn? hemm wahda taljana ave tghidx kemm hi sbehja. qalet jekk ma tigix int mux se taghmel aktar posts 
ma nafx. sirt ma nifhem xejn jien ..... |
Veru (true) ħelwa (sweet) dik (that) it-tfajla (the young lady).
As Edric said, most (ok, some 50/60%) of the maltese language is derived from italian however we do have a set of heavily used words which have a semitic origin.
For example the above paragraph would be written like this in Maltese:
"Bħalma qal Edric, ħafna (ok, xi 50/60%) mill-Malti ġej mit-Taljan imma għandna set ta' kliem li nużaw ħafna li għandhom oriġini semitika.".
