How mutually intelligible are Arabic and Maltese?

I don’t think Maltese and Arabic are intelligible . Maybe some easy sentence, but when Malteses talk about economy , policy, philosophy almost 90% of the lexicon is Romance ( especially Italian ). In Maltese Italian and Sicilian words are close to 50% of all the vocabulary. read more

Keywords: Maltese, Tunisian Arabic, Libyan Arabic, mutual intelligibility, functional testing 1 Introduction In Neo-Arabic dialectology, the concept of mutual intelligibility is often invoked – whether in positive (Ryding 2005: 6) or negative terms (Abu- Haidar 1992: 93) – to conveniently illustrate various claims about the nature of the complex linguistic landscape that is Arabic and the relationship between the Arabic varieties. read more

Regarding the last defection of 2 libyan colonels who flight to Malta by jet. I wonder if they would be able to hold a simple conversation with a maltese using each other´s languages. read more