TikTok page World Genetics, which boasts 189.6K followers and 4.4M likes, highlighted the ‘Semitic Speaking Europeans’ a.k.a the Maltese.
‘Why do those Europeans speak a language that sounds like Arabic’, asks the video.
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The video, which begins with a front cover of local singer Ira Losco, details the genetic makeup and cultural relation to other groups of people like Sicilians, North Africans, Greeks as well as Ashkenazi Jews.
The video explains, in AI voice, how Maltese was born in ‘the medieval era’, when Sicily was under Arab control.
The video racked up 317.9K views on the platform, which highlights other countries’ populations and their languages, cultures and ethnic backgrounds.
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