Cottonera dialect

Cottonera dialect
Cottonera dialect
Kottoneran
Pronunciation	[kɔtːɔnɛˈrɐn]
Region	Three Cities and surrounding area
Native speakers	About 10,000[citation needed] (2014)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Pre-Hilalian Sicilian Arabic Maltese Cottonera dialect; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Maltese alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

One of the dialects of the Maltese language is the Cottonera dialect, known to locals as Kottoneran.^[2]^[3] Many inhabitants of the Three Cities speak the local dialect, and thus roughly amount to 10,000 speakers.

The most distinctive feature of this dialect is its treatment of vowels i and u after the silent consonant għ. In Standard Maltese, and other dialects, these vowels are realized as diphthongs after għ. However, in most situations, they remain monophthongs in the Cottonera dialect.

^ Martine Vanhove, « De quelques traits prehilaliens en maltais », in: Peuplement et arabisation au Maghreb cccidental : dialectologie et histoire, Casa Velazquez - Universidad de Zaragoza (1998), pp.97-108
^ Sciriha, Lydia (1997). Id-djalett tal-Kottonera: analizi socjolingwistika (in Maltese). Daritama Publications. ISBN 978-99909-68-26-2.
^ "Linguistic lustre - The Malta Independent". www.independent.com.mt. Retrieved 14 January 2023.

[1] Martine Vanhove, « De quelques traits prehilaliens en maltais », in: Peuplement et arabisation au Maghreb cccidental : dialectologie et histoire, Casa Velazquez - Universidad de Zaragoza (1998), pp.97-108

[2] Sciriha, Lydia (1997). Id-djalett tal-Kottonera: analizi socjolingwistika (in Maltese). Daritama Publications. ISBN 978-99909-68-26-2.

[3] "Linguistic lustre - The Malta Independent". www.independent.com.mt. Retrieved 14 January 2023.

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