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It is descended from Classical Arabic through Siculo-Arabic and is not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Arabic.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military 2010
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It is descended from Classical Arabic through Siculo-Arabic and is not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Arabic.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military 2010
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It is descended from Classical Arabic through Siculo-Arabic and is not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Arabic.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military 2010
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It is descended from Classical Arabic through Siculo-Arabic and is not mutually intelligible with other varieties of Arabic.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military 2010
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"The historical source of modern Maltese vocabulary is 52% Italian/Sicilian, 32% Siculo-Arabic, and 6% English, with some of the remainder being French."
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It is a Semitic language (descended from the form of Siculo-Arabic, which is the form of Arabic once spoken in Sicily and Malta), but it is written in the Latin alphabet (the only Semitic language to do so).
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Of such is the 11th or 12th century Siculo-Saracenic specimen in fig. 1, in which the heads only of the pairs of animals and birds are broched with gold thread.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Another sort of brocaded material is indicated in fig. 2, taken from a part of a sumptuous Siculo-Saracenic weaving produced in coloured silks and gold threads at the famous Hotel des Tiraz in Palermo for an official robe of Henry IV. (1165-1197) as emperor of the Holy Roman
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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"Not so, sir," said the Siculo-Inglese Jack Robertson, "they tell here priest _not_ cheat, always deal _square_ -- have that character indeed, sir;" and he proceeded to conduct us to another priest-collector, who, in this instance, had gone out to dine with a friend.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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Siculo: nam dum se continet Auster, Contemnunt mediam tem eraria lina
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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