Gozitan dialects

Gozitan
Gozitan
għawdxi
Pronunciation	[/ˈaːw.t͡ʃɪ/]
Native to	Malta
Region	Gozo
Native speakers	About 32,000
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Siculo-Arabic Maltese Gozitan; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Għarb; Xewkija;
Writing system	Latin (Maltese alphabet)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	gozo1238
Linguasphere	12-AAC-cag
	Gozo Island, Malta

The Gozitan dialects are rural dialects of Maltese spoken in the island of Gozo. The vowel shift of *ā (phonologically a) to o or u is their main differentiating trait.

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