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Title: | L-Alfabet Malti |
Authors: | Micallef, Alfonso Maria |
Keywords: | Maltese linguistics -- History Maltese language -- Alphabet Printed ephemera |
Issue Date: | 1880 |
Publisher: | Stamperija ta G. Mifsud |
Citation: | Micallef, A. M. (1880) L-Alphabet Malti. Archive Pamphlets (Archv. Pamph. 5.15). University of Malta Library, Archives & Rare Books dept. |
Abstract: | "Ante omnia ... curandum est, ut quis patrii sermonis notitiam habeat; ..... quod quidem ita apertum est, ut probatione non indigeat." Liebermann. (lnstit: Theol: Proleg: c. II. § 2.) “To inquire whether children shall be first taught familiarly in the language of their fireside, is to ask whether their education shall be a reality or a form” Quarterly Review. (September 1850, p.371.) “La propria lingua … è il fondamento primo degli studj, della eloquenza e della poesia.” Franc: Algarotti (Saggio sopra la necessitá di scrivere nella propria lingua.) “ Metaphisicians are agreed that, scarcely any of our intellectual operations could be carried on, without the agency of words … Into every process of reasoning, language enters as an essencial element.” Roget. (Introduction to the “Thesaurus”) KONT ilhi uisq-ja GhorrjefMaltin, u Inthom el-koll li tħobbhu 'l-Lsjen Malti,-bjex ngìb qoddjemkom dan 'l-Alfabet, li jen haun issa sejjer nurhikom, u li bih jen, (u xi oħrajn) ktibt, koll meta kellhi nikteb xi ħaga b'el-Malti; u bqaghit-bqaghit mah gibthux, min jum gha 'l-ihor, sa 'llum, ghaljex kont ridt kjeku illi flimkjen mighu nikteb u ngighel illi tidher ukoll xi ħaga fuq el-ghamila (natura) u 's-sbuhija ta'l-Lsjen Malti...[Excerpt] |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/111642 |
Appears in Collections: | 1850-1899 - A&SCPam |
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