Cottonera dialect | |
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Kottoneran | |
Pronunciation | [kɔtːɔnɛˈrɐn] |
Region | Three Cities and surrounding area |
Native speakers | About 10,000[citation needed] (2014) |
Maltese alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
One of the dialects of the Maltese language is the Cottonera dialect, known to locals as Kottoneran.[2][3] Many inhabitants of the Three Cities speak the local dialect, and thus roughly amount to 10,000 speakers.
The most distinctive feature of this dialect is its treatment of vowels i and u after the silent consonant għ. In Standard Maltese, and other dialects, these vowels are realized as diphthongs after għ. However, in most situations, they remain monophthongs in the Cottonera dialect.