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On 1/29/06, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote: > The other Semitic languages > seem to preserve consonant root structure as a very typical feature. To say > nothing about lexical borrowings from European languages in Maltese :) Though the Maltese verbal system has, as I understand it, seized on a marginal part of the system to accommodate loan verbs, first from from Italian and later from English, in a manner that can't really be called "using the triconsonantal system" any more -- it's more a stem + prefixes and suffixes thing of the kind you might find in a SAE language. -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@hidden.email>