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It’s practically half arabic and half italian/sicilian. Wow.
Maltese is so cool.
That ending made me want your video on Quebecois, that “besoin” definitely caught me off guard hahaha
I usually don’t use Quebecois pronunciation, but somehow I’d been saying that one word like a Quebecker since forever. 😄 I only realized because the participants looked confused and said the word differently themselves.
Why not just from french “besoin”.
What do you mean?
Why is the emphasis on the word being from sicilian, when the root word is frankish?@@Langfocus
@@magichands135Because you have bisogno/bisognu in italian/sicilian and Malta is like a stone’s throw from Sicily, maybe?
@@andreraphael6727 But the word is frankish, so if anything, the word came from the french mainland through Italy and Sicily to Malta. He makes it sound like sicilian is some unique isolated language. And if the word is not frankish, just say it’s origins are from latin.
in french “jai besoin” also