So, while most people say
ħabel tal-inxir (clothes line), some in Gozo say
perċa while others in Siġġiewi and Mosta say
manxar or
manxra.
These and other lexical curiosities are being documented by a team of lecturers and researchers at the University of Malta and will feature in an online portal that should go live in the first quarter of this year.
This “one-stop-shop website” will also map dialects sourced from various localities in Malta and Gozo, some of which were recorded 50 years ago by a team led by professor Ġużè Aquilina and University of Leeds scholar Benedikt Isserlin.