✨ Maltese & Arabic: Twins in Different Clothes and Styles ✨ Maltese 🇲🇹 is unique: it’s the only Semitic language written in Latin script. And if you speak Arabic, you’ll feel right at home—so many words sound exactly the same! Some examples you’ll instantly recognize: • 🏠 Dar → “house” (دار) • ❤️ Qalb → “heart” (قلب) • 👂 Widna → “ear” (ودن) • 🌙 Qamar → “moon” (قمر) • 👁️ Għajn → “eye/spring” (عين) • 🚶 Miexja → “walking” (ماشي) • ⏰ Siegħa → “hour” (ساعة) • ✋ Idejn → “hands” (إيدين) Even full expressions sound Arabic at their core: • Kif inti? → “How are you?” (كيف إنت؟) • Ma nafx → “I don’t know” (ما نعرفش) So Maltese isn’t just “similar” to Arabic—it’s basically Arabic dressed up in Latin letters, sprinkled with Italian & English influence. 🌍✨ Soon, we’ll go into how Arabic shaped Maltese (history of Arabs in Malta, Sicilian Arabic roots, etc.).