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Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.
The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag.
* Maltese sometimes uses diacritics on some vowels to indicate stress or long vowels, but this is restricted to pronunciation assistance in dictionaries.
In Maltese the word is L-Għid, where " Għ " stands for the common Semitic consonant Ayin, and is directly derived from Arabic ʿĪd, which in both cases means " festival ".
The Basque language of the western Pyrenees is an isolate unrelated to any other group, while Maltese is the only Semitic language in Europe with national language status.
A Spanish / Maltese false friend is guapo / a and gwapp / a respectively.
Co-written by Truman Capote, the movie is a parody of The Maltese Falcon, and is a tale of an amoral group of rogues chasing an unattainable treasure, in this instance uranium.
According to the European Union's Publication Office, in English, Irish, Latvian and Maltese texts, the ISO 4217 code is followed by a fixed space and the amount:
* 1799 – Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
Maltese ( Malti ) is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,
About half of the vocabulary is borrowed from standard Italian and Sicilian ; English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the Maltese vocabulary, according to different estimates ( see below ).
In 1436, in the will of a certain Pawlu Peregrino, Maltese is first identified as lingua maltensi.
The oldest known document in Maltese is " Il Cantilena " ( Maltese: Xidew il-Qada ) a poem from the 15th century written by Pietro Caxaro, and the first known Maltese dictionary was written by the French Knight Francois de Vion Thezan Court in 1640.
This is the oldest example of printed Maltese.
Thousands of Maltese emigrants in Australia, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, and the United States still speak the language, and in 2007 it was reported that Maltese is still spoken by descendants of Maltese immigrants in Tunisia.
Maltese is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic, that in the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian and Italian, to a lesser extent French, and more recently English.
Due to the Sicilian influence on Siculo-Arabic, Maltese has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of loanwords.

Maltese and descended
In his book Dell ’ Istoria della Sacra Religione et Illustrissima Militia di San Giovanni Gierosolimitano (), written between 1594 and 1602, Giacomo Bosio endorses the notion that Maltese descended from Carthaginian.
Another tradition suggests that the Maltese are descended from shepherd tribes who fled Bethlehem in the face of an advancing enemy, set sail from Jaffa, and settled in Malta.
The Maltese is thought to have been descended from a Spitz-type dog found among the Swiss Lake Dwellers and was selectively bred to attain its small size.
*** Maltese language ( descended from Sicilian Arabic, but influenced lexically by Sicilian, Italian, French, and more recently, English )

Maltese and from
In particular, British ships cut Malta off from France, aided by the rebellion among the native Maltese population that forced the French garrison to retreat to Valletta and shut the gates.
During the night of February 10, 2010, the Sichem Osprey, a Maltese chemical tanker, ran aground on Clipperton Island on its way from the Panama Canal to South Korea.
With business partner Les Goldman, Jones started an independent animation studio Sib Tower 12 Productions, bringing on most of his unit from Warner Bros., including Maurice Noble and Michael Maltese.
cypher logo in the center of the flag, to distinguish them from Maltese ships, due to the similarity of the flag of the Order of St. John ( also known as the Knights Hospitaller ).
The classic film noirs The Maltese Falcon and The Glass Key ( 1942 ) were based on novels by Hammett ; Cain's novels provided the basis for Double Indemnity ( 1944 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ), and Slightly Scarlet ( 1956 ; adapted from Love's Lovely Counterfeit ).
As a result of the ban, foreign nationals from certain countries were not permitted entry into Libya at Tripoli airport, including 22 Italians and eight Maltese citizens, one of whom was forced to wait for 20 hours before he was able to return home.
The oldest reference to Maltese comes from the Benedictine monks of Catania, who were unable to open a monastery in Malta, in 1364, because they could not understand the native language.
Maltese became an official language of Malta in 1934, alongside English, when Italian was dropped from official use.
Malta has two official languages -- Maltese ( a Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic and heavily influenced by Sicilian and Italian ), and English.
Therefore, the Maltese court system safeguards both the positions of the judge and to a certain extent, the position of the courts, from political interference by government or by Parliament.
The Maltese Government has pursued a policy of increased economic freedom and privatisation, taking some steps to shift from reliance on government intervention to allowing a greater role for free market mechanisms.
" Similarly, in Maltese a Christian male is called Nisrani, whilst someone from Nazareth is called Nazzarenu.
At first it seemed that this would be a repeat of the battle on Rhodes, with most of Malta's cities destroyed and half the Knights killed in battle ; but a relief force from Spain entered the battle, resulting in the loss of 30, 000 Ottoman troops and the victory of the local Maltese citizenry.
* Spin ( band ), a band from the Maltese Islands
* September 5 – At the invitation of the Maltese, British troops liberate the Islands of Malta and Gozo from the French.
After the Norman conquest the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north ( Sicily and Italy ), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano ( Italy ) in 1223, the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in 1240 and the settlement in Malta of noble families from Sicily between 1372 and 1450.

Maltese and Siculo-Arabic
The Maltese language has historically been classified in various ways, with some claiming that the ancient Punic language was the base of the language, instead of Siculo-Arabic, while others believed the language to be Berber, and under Fascist Italy, it was considered a dialect of Italian.
In the Maltese language, due to its Siculo-Arabic origin, Sunday is called " Il-Ħadd ," a corruption of " wieħed " meaning " one.
It is presently evident in the names of various Maltese towns and villages and in the Maltese language, a genetic descendant of Siculo-Arabic.
This theory has been mostly discredited ; mainstream theories hold Maltese to be derived from Siculo-Arabic, with a large number of loanwords from Italian.
Linguistically, Andalusian Arabic and Siculo-Arabicand therefore its descendant Maltese — are considered Maghrebi Arabic, but when discussing modern language the word is often given a geographic definition and limited to North Africa.
A Siculo-Arabic dialect similar to Maltese was the vernacular of the island until the late 18th century, when it was superseded by Romance Sicilian.

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