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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by ebb_earl_co on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:31AM (#45734191)
What is the name of Maltese in Maltese? Like “el español” in Spanish, it’s neat to know what languages call themselves
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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by ggsp on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:49AM (#45734422)
Wikipedia says it's "Malti"
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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by arbuge on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @12:28PM (#45734985)
Il-Malti to be precise. Il- means "the" and changes its meaning to that of the language. Malti alone would mean a Maltese person.

Source: I'm also Maltese.

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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by jll29 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:12PM (#45739265)
The "Il" in Il-Malti is like "al" in Arabic, which Maltese is closely related to as was pointed out above.

Arabic (language): al-‘arabiyyah (الْعَرَبِيَّة).

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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by kridsdale3 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @11:46AM (#45734386)
'ish' is a pretty universal english suffix. So Spanish is just "españ-ish".
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Re:EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 offic... by kwk1 on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:34PM (#45739527)
A term for that concept, by the way, is "endonym":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym

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