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Gozitan
Għawdxi
Pronunciation	[/ˈaːw.t͡ʃɪ/]
Native to	Malta
Region	Gozo
Native speakers	About 32,000
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Pre-Hilalian[1] Sicilian Arabic Maltese Gozitan
Dialects	Għarb Xewkija Żebbuġ Nadur Għajnsielem
Writing system	Latin (Maltese alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	gozo1238
Linguasphere	12-AAC-cag
Gozo Island, Malta

TheGozitan dialects are rural dialects ofMaltese spoken in the island ofGozo. Thevowel shift of *ā (phonologicallya) too oru is their main differentiating trait.^[2]

Comparison of some words in Standard Maltese and in the Gozitan dialects:^[3]

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• Languages of Malta

• Aquilina, Joseph, and B.S.J. Isserlin. 1981.A Survey of Contemporary Dialectal Maltese. Volume I: Gozo. Leeds: B.S.J. Isserlin.
• Farrugia, Ruben. 2021. ‘The Acoustic Vowel Space of Gozitan Naduri and Sannati Dialects’. InSemitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 197–211. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
• Gwida Il-Malti Kontra L-Għawdxi – Is-Sbuħija Tad-Djalett.
• Klimiuk, Maciej. 2021. ‘Language Questionnaire for Gozo, Malta’.Folia Orientalia 58: 111–89
• Klimiuk, Maciej. 2022. ‘Vowel Length in Maltese Dialects of Gozo’. InSemitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 213–27. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
• Klimiuk, Maciej, and Ruben Farrugia. 2022. ‘A Text in the Maltese Dialect of Sannat (Gozo) with Grammatical Remarks’. InSemitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 381–96. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.
• Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2019. ‘Dialectology in Practice: Notes from Fieldwork in Gozo’. InArabic Dialectology: Methodology and Field Research, edited by Werner Arnold and Maciej Klimiuk, 23–32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
• Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022a. ‘Fishing and Cyclone Cutting: A Text from the Area of Għasri within the Dialect Continuum of Gozo (Malta)’.Mediterranean Language Review 29: 19–52.
• Klimiuk, Maciej, and Maria Lipnicka. 2022b. ‘The Gozitan Dialect of Xewkija: Three Recorded Dialogues and Some Preliminary Remarks’.The Israel Oriental Studies Annual 22: 145–77.
• Lipnicka, Maria. 2022. ‘Pausal Diphthongisation in Gozitan Dialects Compared to Zaḥlé, Lebanon’. InSemitic Dialects and Dialectology: Fieldwork—Community—Change, edited by Maciej Klimiuk, 229–41. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing.

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