The Maltese language is descended from Siculo-Arabic which is descended from a Maghrebi Arabic dialect. This isn't even controversial.https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/819148164091547648 …
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You are not getting my point. Are Maltese Arabs, Y/N?
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So are Egyptians Arab? How about Syrians? Please keep to Y/N & specify "genetic markers"
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@iyad_elbaghdadi You contradict yourself. This is inconsistent w/your classification of Maltese as nonArabs from genes in spite of lang.4 replies 4 retweets 12 likes -
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some genetic evidence on the topic (source:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1529-8817.2004.00138.x/full …)pic.twitter.com/2o22ViGJU8
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If anyone wants to look at the real fixation index numbers between Lebs+others:http://biorxiv.org/highwire/filestream/16360/field_highwire_adjunct_files/3/059311-4.xlsx …
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