How did Siculo-Arabic survive on Malta and evolve into what is today Maltese while in Sicily it died out relatively quickly after the Norman conquest?

by MightBeHarassing
Ricardolindo3

u/arrofil explained this 4 years ago at https://reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3wdz2d/why_is_an_arabicderived_language_still_spoken_in/.