28 May 2025
The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity: “Maltese language – a saracen burden or the voice of the past? History of standardization of Malta’s tongue”- Aleksander Kanciał, May 28, 2025
will take place on
May 28, 2025
at 16:45 CET
in Room 9, Dobra 72
Malta has always been the centrepoint of the mediterranean maritime cultural crossroads, which caused it to be one of the most historically involved and culturally blended places in all of the region. It also caused it’s language, one of Semitic origins, to contain major influences from all it’s neighbours.
The history of it’s official, governmental standardization is a very modern process, spanning only slightly more then the last hundred years, although grassroot academic attempts span a much more lengthy period of time, oppressed by the surrounding nationalist ideologies, local and academic disputes as well as it’s own people, who deemed it unworthy of praise and upholding. Yet, against all odds, it grew to be the language of Maltese society, Maltese media, Maltese education and, probably most importantly, the only Semitic tongue to be an official working language of the European Union. However, all of it wasn’t without a multitude of hiccups along the way.
To join the seminar online, please register before 3 PM
on the seminar day at crp@al.uw.edu.pl
