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"Ante omnia . curandum est, ut quis patrii sermonis notitiam habeat; . quod quidem ita apertum est, ut probatione non indigeat." Liebermann. (lnstit: Theol: Proleg: c. II. § 2.) ; “To inquire whether children shall be first taught familiarly in the language of their fireside, is to ask whether their education shall be a reality or a form” Quarterly Review. (September 1850, p.371.) ; “La propria lingua … è il fondamento primo degli studj, della eloquenza e della poesia.” Franc: Algarotti (Saggio sopra la necessitá di scrivere nella propria lingua.) ; “ Metaphisicians are agreed that, scarcely any of our intellectual operations could be carried on, without the agency of words … Into every process of reasoning, language enters as an essencial element.” Roget. (Introduction to the “Thesaurus”) ; KONT ilhi uisq-ja GhorrjefMaltin, u Inthom el-koll li tħobbhu 'l-Lsjen Malti,-bjex ngìb qoddjemkom dan 'l-Alfabet, li jen haun issa sejjer nurhikom, u li bih jen, (u xi oħrajn) ktibt, koll meta kellhi nikteb xi ħaga b'el-Malti; u bqaghit-bqaghit mah gibthux, min jum gha 'l-ihor, sa 'llum, ghaljex kont ridt kjeku illi flimkjen mighu nikteb u ngighel illi tidher ukoll xi ħaga fuq el-ghamila (natura) u 's-sbuhija ta'l-Lsjen Malti.[Excerpt] ; non peer-reviewed |