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Siculo Arabic (or Sicilian Arabic) was a variety
Varieties of Arabic

The Arabic language is a Semitic language with many Variety that diverge widely from one another?both from country to country and within a single country....
 of Arabic spoken in Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 and Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
 between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries. It is extinct in Sicily, but developed into what is now the Maltese language
Maltese language

Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....
 on the islands of Malta.

e there was an unsuccessful invasion of Sicily by Arabs in 652 AD, the successful Arabic conquest started
History of Islam in southern Italy

The Muslim conquests and rule of Sicily, Malta, and parts of southern Italy was a process whose origin can be traced back through the Spread of Islam from the seventh century onwards....
 in 827
827

Events...
 at Mazara
Mazara del Vallo

Mazara del Vallo is a town in southwestern Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani....
. By 878, all Sicily was conquered and Arabic was the language of the island's Muslim rulers until the mid-11th century when the Christian Normans began conquering the island.






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Siculo Arabic (or Sicilian Arabic) was a variety
Varieties of Arabic

The Arabic language is a Semitic language with many Variety that diverge widely from one another?both from country to country and within a single country....
 of Arabic spoken in Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 and Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
 between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries. It is extinct in Sicily, but developed into what is now the Maltese language
Maltese language

Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....
 on the islands of Malta.

Arab conquest of Sicily

While there was an unsuccessful invasion of Sicily by Arabs in 652 AD, the successful Arabic conquest started
History of Islam in southern Italy

The Muslim conquests and rule of Sicily, Malta, and parts of southern Italy was a process whose origin can be traced back through the Spread of Islam from the seventh century onwards....
 in 827
827

Events...
 at Mazara
Mazara del Vallo

Mazara del Vallo is a town in southwestern Sicily, Italy, which lies mainly on the left bank at the mouth of the Mazaro river, administratively part of the province of Trapani....
. By 878, all Sicily was conquered and Arabic was the language of the island's Muslim rulers until the mid-11th century when the Christian Normans began conquering the island. After only a century, however, the Norman
Norman dynasty

Norman dynasty is the usual designation for the King of England which immediately followed the Norman conquest and lasted until the Plantagenet dynasty came to power in 1154....
 dynasty died out and its successor expelled the remaining Muslims in the 13th century.

Arabic influence
Influence of Arabic on other languages

Arabic language has had a great influence on other languages, especially in vocabulary. The influence of Arabic has been most profound in those countries dominated by Islam or Islamic power....
 is noticeable in hundreds of Sicilian
Sicilian language

Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects comprise the Italiano Meridionale-estremo language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is called Cilentano ....
 words, most of which relate to agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
 and related activities, the practice of which survives today.

Maltese language

Although Siculo-Arabic died out in Sicily, it survived on Malta
Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed country European microstates microstate in the European Union....
, with additional influences from Sicilian
Sicilian language

Sicilian is a Romance language. Its dialects comprise the Italiano Meridionale-estremo language group, which are spoken on the island of Sicily and its satellite islands; in southern and central Calabria ; in the southern parts of Apulia, the Salento ; and Campania, on the Italian mainland, where it is called Cilentano ....
, Standard Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, and more recently English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
. Examples of surviving Siculo-Arabic vocabulary within the Maltese language
Maltese language

Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....
 include:

Maltese Siculo-Arabic
Siculo-Arabic

Siculo Arabic was a Varieties of Arabic of Arabic spoken in Sicily and Malta between the ninth and the fourteenth centuries. It is extinct in Sicily, but developed into what is now the Maltese language on the islands of Malta....
 English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
Bebbuxu Babbaluciu Snail
Kapunata Caponata Caponata
Qassata Cassata
Cassata

Cassata or Cassata siciliana is a traditional sweet from the area of Palermo, Sicily . Cassata may also refer to a Neapolitan ice cream containing candied or dried fruit and nuts....
 Sicilian cake
Giebja Gebbia Cistern
Gunglien Giuggiulena Sesame seed
Saqqajja Saia Canal
Kenur Tanura Oven
Zaffran Zaffarana Saffron
Saffron

Saffron is a spice derived from the dried gynoecium of the flower of the saffron crocus , a species of crocus in the family Iridaceae. The flower has three Carpels, which are the anatomical terms of location ends of the plant's carpels....
Zahar Zagara Blossom
Zbib Zibbibbu Raisins
Zokk Zuccu Tree trunk


See also

  • Maltese language
    Maltese language

    Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....