Gozitan dialects

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.[1]

Gozitan
għawdxi
Pronunciation[/ˈaːw.t͡ʃɪ/]
Native toMalta
RegionGozo
Native speakers
About 32,000
Dialects
  • Għarb
  • Xewkija
Latin (Maltese alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologgozo1238
Linguasphere12-AAC-cag
Gozo Island in Malta

Vocabulary

Comparison of some words in Maltese and Gozitan dialects[2]

EnglishMalteseGozitan
pillspillolipinuri
shystaħaregħex
biscuitbiskuttelfettul
mattresssaqqumitraħ
gozogħawdexgħawdix
dizzysturdamentmejt
bunch ofgħanqudxenqul
small tabletavolinamejdina
internal hall doorantiportaboxxla
spoil someonefsiedħajm
silver foilfiddasmontor

See also

References

  1. Klimiuk, Maciej; Lipnicka, Maria (2022). Cohen, Yoram (ed.). "The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks". Telling of Olden Kings. The IOS Annual. Leiden: Brill (22): 146–147. ISBN 978-90-04-52679-2. OCLC 1350843539 via The Wikipedia Library.
  2. "Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett". www.gwida.mt (in Maltese). Retrieved 2023-04-14.

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. ‘The Acoustic Vowel Space of Gozitan Naduri and Sannati Dialects’. 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. ‘Language Questionnaire for Gozo, Malta’. Folia Orientalia 58: 111–89
  • Klimiuk, Maciej. 2022. ‘Vowel Length in Maltese Dialects of Gozo’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 213–27. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
  • Klimiuk, Maciej, and Ruben Farrugia. 2022. ‘A Text in the Maltese Dialect of Sannat (Gozo) with Grammatical Remarks’. 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 Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks’. The Israel Oriental Studies Annual 22: 145–77.
  • Lipnicka, Maria. 2022. ‘Pausal Diphthongisation in Gozitan Dialects Compared to Zaḥlé, Lebanon’. In Semitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 229–41. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.


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