Qormi dialect
Qurmi
Region	Qormi and surrounding area
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Pre-Hilalian[1] Sicilian Arabic Maltese Qormi dialect
Writing system	Maltese alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
IETF	mt-u-sd-mt43
Qormi in Malta

TheQormi dialect (Qormi dialect:Qurmi, Standard Maltese:Qormi) is adialect of theMaltese language spoken by inhabitants ofQormi. It is affectionately known asit-Tuf, or in standard Malteseit-Taf, because of the difference in the Maltese wordtaf 'you know'.^[2] The most distinctive feature of the Qormi dialect is its treatment ofvowels.

The Qormi dialect has the following vowels:^[3]: 24

Vowels in the first syllables are the ones most often affected, but sometimes medial vowels are changed as well. Final vowels, on the other hand, are usually identical to those of the standard language.

The Maltese vowela corresponds to the vowel /u/ in the Qormi dialect. If at the end of a word, it is realized as /o/.^[4]

The vowelo in Maltese often corresponds to /u/ in the Qormi dialect.^[4] For example:

This form happens to almost all words that have the vowelo in the first syllable, although there may be exceptions.

The vowels after thegħ change their sound as well.

• The syllablegħi, instead of as /aj/, is pronounced as /ej/. For example, in the dialect,għid il-kbir 'Easter' is pronounced likeejd il-kbir instead ofajd il-kbir in the standard.
• The syllablegħe, instead of with /e/, is pronounced with /a/. For example, in the dialect,qiegħed 'to stay' is pronounced likeqijad instead ofqijed in the standard.
• The syllablegħu, instead of as /ow/, is pronounced as /ew/. For example, in the dialect,għuda 'piece of wood' is pronounced likeewda instead ofowda in the standard.

Although there may be exceptions, such askollha 'all of it', which is pronounced likekillha in the dialect, andmeta 'when' likemita, one must note that the vowels are almost never lengthened, and their accent remains the normal Maltese one.

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