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

EnglishMalteseGozitan
pillspillolipinuri
shystaħaregħex
biscuitbiskuttelfettul
mattresssaqqumitraħ
gozogħawdexgħawdix
dizzysturdamentmejt
bunch ofgħanqudxenqul
small tabletavolinamejdina
interal hall doorantiportaboxxla
spoil someonefsiedħajm
biscuitbiskuttelfettul
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.

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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