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Siculo-Arabic
Siculo-Arabic was the variety of Arabic spoken in Sicily and Malta from the Islamic conquest in the 9th century. It remained in use among Sicily's Muslims, Christians and Jews under Norman rule but died out on the island in the later Middle Ages. In Malta it developed into Maltese, the only Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet, and it left many words in Sicilian.
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