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Athanasius Kircher spent two years in Malta ( 1637 – 38 ) and made observations running counter to ideas of Punic ancestry accepted by his contemporaries.
In his Mundus Subterraneus he says of the Maltese, " they speak the purest form of Arabic, corrupted by neither Italian nor any other language.
" Other theories include those in Johann Friedrich Breithaupt's Christliche Helden Insel Malta (), published in 1632, where he calls Maltese a mixed ' barbaric ' language and John Dryden's description of the language as ' Berber ' on his visit to the islands ( the memoirs of those journeys appeared in 1776 ).

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