query: Death Note is a Korean television science fiction mini series based on a manga series illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

positive: Death Note (2015 TV series) is a Japanese television drama series based on the manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . It was directed by Ryūichi Inomata , who directed the television drama Kaseifu no Mita in 2011 , and Ryō Nishimura known by the special version of the 2014 drama Kamen Teacher . The show stars Masataka Kubota as Light Yagami , Kento Yamazaki as L , and Mio Yūki as Near / Mello .   The drama premiered on NTV on July 5 , 2015 . The first episode received a viewership rating of 16.9 % in the Kantō region .

negative: Near (Death Note) , exclusively known by the mononym , is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note , created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . Near is the younger of the two successors to L who was investigating the methods of identifying Kira , the name given to the mysterious serial killer who murders criminals by means of the eponymous Death Note . He becomes the leader of the SPK ( Special Provision for Kira ) , an organization that looks into the Kira case , and in the end , succeeds in uncovering Kira 's identity as Light Yagami .   In the anime adaptation , Near is voiced by Noriko Hidaka in Japanese and by Cathy Weseluck in the English version . He is portrayed by Narushi Fukuda in L : Change the World and by Mio Yūki in the television drama .

negative: Death Note 2: The Last Name a 2006 Japanese detective supernatural psychological thriller film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko . The film is the second in a series of live-action Japanese films released in 2006 based on the Death Note manga and anime series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . The film primarily centers on a university student named Light Yagami who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it . The film was produced by Nippon Television , and distributed by Warner Bros. . Pictures Japan . It was licensed by VIZ Pictures . A spin-off , L : Change the World , was released in 2008 . A sequel , Death Note : Light Up the New World , was released in 2016 .

negative: Tsugumi Ohba is the pen name of a Japanese gensakusha or writer of manga . He is best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006 , which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation . The duo 's second series Bakuman . ( 2008 -- 2012 ) , was also successful with 15 million in circulation . In 2014 , he collaborated with My Little Monster creator Robico for the one-shot `` Skip ! Yamada-kun '' . Another series with Obata called Platinum End began in the December 2015 issue of Jump SQ on November 4 , 2015 .   His real identity is a closely guarded secret . He has cited Shotaro Ishinomori , Fujiko Fujio , and Fujio Akatsuka as manga creators by whom he is heavily inspired . As stated by the profile placed at the beginning of each Death Note manga , Ohba collects teacups and develops manga plots while holding his knees on a chair , similar to a habit of L , one of the main characters of the series . There is speculation that Tsugumi Ohba is a pen name of Hiroshi Gamo , pointing out that in Bakuman the main character 's uncle was a one-hit wonder manga artist who worked on a gag super-hero manga , very similar to Gamo and Tottemo ! Luckyman in all aspects , and also that the storyboards drawn by Ohba greatly resemble Tottemo ! Luckyman in style .

negative: Light Yagami is a fictional character and the protagonist of the manga series Death Note , created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . He is a bored young genius who finds the Death Note dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk by pure chance . Using the notebook , which allows its owner to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face , Light becomes a serial-murderer known as in an attempt to create and rule a utopia cleansed of criminals , with him at the helm as a `` god '' .   In the anime adaptation , he is voiced by Mamoru Miyano in Japanese and by Brad Swaile in the English version . In the live-action film series , he is portrayed by Tatsuya Fujiwara with Swaile reprising his role as his English dub voice ; he is portrayed by both Kenji Urai and Hayato Kakizawa in the musical ; in the TV drama , he is portrayed by Masataka Kubota ; and his counterpart in the American film will be portrayed by Nat Wolff .

negative: List of Death Note characters The manga series Death Note features an extensive cast of fictional characters designed by Takeshi Obata with their storylines created by Tsugumi Ohba .   In the fictional stories featured in the Death Note universe , Tsugumi Ohba , the story writer , created characters that lived in a world featuring a notebook in which names written on it would lead to the ones named to die , typically the cause of death being a heart attack when otherwise not specified . The story follows the novel of a character named Light Yagami , who uses the notebook he found in order to cleanse the world of those humans which he deemed unfit for society . A team of professional investigators set out to find out the mysterious killer and arrest him , and thus many other characters are introduced until Light is eventually caught . The story creator chose names for his characters in a way that , as he described , `` seemed real but could not exist in the real world '' , due to the fact that most of the characters were criminals or victims . Light Yagami , the main character is depicted as the deadliest of them . Some character details differ between the manga and its anime , live-action film and drama adaptations .

negative: Mello (Death Note) , universally referred to by the mononym , is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note , created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . Mello is introduced alongside Near as a potential substitute for L. Both Mello and Near were raised at Wammy 's House , an orphanage established by Watari , L 's assistant . However , Mello refuses to work with Near to capture a murderer dubbed `` Kira '' . Over the course of Death Note , he joins the mafia , obtains a Death Note , causes the death of some people , and dies before he can expose Kira 's identity . Mello has also appeared in other media from the series , including video games , and light novels .   The character of Mello was created , along with Near , to break the endless cycle of confrontations between the detective L and Light Yagami , the man behind the persona Kira . Both Mello and Near were designed after L , and were initially envisioned as twins and sons of L. Ultimately , this idea was dropped , with their designs switched compared to the original concept . He is voiced in the Japanese anime series by Nozomu Sasaki and in the English adaptation by David Hurwitz . Merchandise has been created for the character , including plush dolls and action figures . Mello has received mixed commentary by manga and anime publications .

negative: Kamen Rider is a tokusatsu superhero television series and weekly science fiction manga created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori . It debuted on television on April 3 , 1971 , and ran until February 10 , 1973 , airing on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and NET TV ( now TV Asahi ) . The manga adaptation was also featured in Shōnen Magazine around the same period . The series has evolved into a franchise with many subsequent annual iterations . The cultural impact of the series in Japan resulted in astronomer Akimasa Nakamura naming two minor planets in honor of the series : 12408 Fujioka , after actor Hiroshi Fujioka , known for his portrayal of Takeshi Hongo/Kamen Rider 1 , and 12796 Kamenrider , after the series itself .

negative: L: Change the World L : Change the World ( stylized as L : change the WorLd ) is a 2008 Japanese film that is a spin-off to the Death Note film series . Although the film is inspired by the manga Death Note that was written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata , it follows an original storyline . It is set after the events of Death Note 2 : The Last Name .   The film is directed by Hideo Nakata , and it stars actor Kenichi Matsuyama as the character `` L '' . Furthermore , child actor Narushi Fukuda stars as the unnamed boy , while child actress Mayuko Fukuda plays the role of Maki Nikaido , a character who does not appear in the original manga .   The film was first released in Hong Kong on 7 February 2008 . It was subsequently released in the Japanese box office on 9 February 2008 . Additionally , two different versions of the film were shown in the United States on 29 and 30 April 2009 respectively .

negative: Hikaru no Go is a Japanese manga series based on the board game Go , written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . The production of the series ' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa . It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1998 to 2003 , with the chapters collected into 23 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha .   It was adapted into an anime television series by Studio Pierrot , that ran for 75 episodes from 2001 to 2003 on TV Tokyo , with a New Year 's Special aired in January 2004 . Viz Media released both the manga and anime in North America ; they serialized the manga in Shonen Jump in addition to releasing its collected volumes in entirety , while the anime aired on ImaginAsian in addition to a DVD release that was cancelled prematurely .   Hikaru no Go was well-received , with over 25 million copies in circulation and winning the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 . It is largely responsible for popularizing Go among the youth of Japan since its debut , and considered by Go players everywhere to have sparked worldwide interest in the game , noticeably increasing the Go-playing population around the globe .

negative: Kentaro Yabuki is a Japanese manga artist , best known for his series Black Cat . His mentor was Takeshi Obata , the illustrator of Death Note , Hikaru no Go and Bakuman .

negative: Makoto Niwano is a manga artist . He is known for several works , including The Momotaroh , Bomber Girl and Jinnairyū Jyūjyutsu Butouden Majimakun Suttobasu !! . Niwano has also written a manga adaptation of Deltora Quest which was adapted into an anime series . He was mentor to Takeshi Obata of Hikaru no Go and Death Note fame .

negative: List of Hikaru no Go chapters is a coming of age story manga , based on the board game Go , written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . The series was published Shueisha in its Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from 1998 to 2003 and the 189 serialized chapters were collected in 23 tankōbon volumes .   The series has been adapted by Studio Pierrot as a 75-episode anime television series , with a broadcast between 2001 and 2003 on TV Tokyo .   __ TOC __

negative: List of Bakuman characters This is a list of fictional characters in the manga series Bakuman . The writer of the series , Tsugumi Ohba , developed the basic character traits while Takeshi Obata , the artist , created the visual character designs . A majority of the characters are themselves involved in the manga industry as manga artists , editors , or assistants .

negative: Kimera Kimera may refer to :   Kimera of Buganda , a king of the Kingdom of Buganda  Kimera , a species in the science fiction television series , Earth : Final Conflict  Kimera ( singer ) , a Korean opera singer  Kimera ( manga ) , a manga series written and illustrated by Kodaka Kazumo

negative: Misa Amane is a fictional character in the manga series Death Note , created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata . A famous model , Misa seeks out mass-murderer Kira ( Light Yagami ) as she supports his cause to `` cleanse the world of evil '' . Using her own Death Note , a notebook that allows its owner to kill anyone simply by knowing their name and face that she received from the Shinigami Rem , Misa does everything she can to aid Light . This includes shortening her own lifespan by half , twice , in order to receive the eyes of a Shinigami , giving her the ability to learn a person 's name just by looking at their face . Although Misa fills the traditional role of the love interest , her relationship with Light is one-sided as he uses her simply for his own gains .   In the anime adaptation , Misa is voiced by Aya Hirano in Japanese and by Shannon Chan-Kent in the English version . In the live-action adaptations , she is portrayed by Erika Toda in the films , by Fuka Yuzuki in the musical , and by Hinako Sano in the television drama . Margaret Qualley will be portraying Mia Sutton in the upcoming American film version .

negative: List of Death Note chapters This is a list of the chapters of the Japanese manga series Death Note , written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . The individual chapters were originally serialized in Shueisha 's Weekly Shōnen Jump , from December 2003 to May 2006 , with 108 chapters in all . The series primarily focuses on high school student Light Yagami who decides to use a supernatural notebook called the `` Death Note '' , which kills anyone whose name is written in it , to rid the world of evil .   Death Note has been compiled into twelve tankōbon in Japan , with the first being released on April 2 , 2004 , and the twelfth on July 4 , 2006 . In addition to these , a guidebook for the manga , Death Note 13 : How to Read , was also published on October 13 , 2006 . The guidebook has information about the series , with character profiles , creator interviews , and the pilot chapter that preceded Death Note . A one-shot story special of Death Note was also released in February 2008 , and is set two years after the original story 's epilogue . Death Note has been adapted into an anime with thirty-seven episodes produced by Nippon Television , and has three live action films .   The Death Note manga is licensed by Viz Media for North American distribution under their `` Shonen Jump Advanced '' imprint . Viz published the first volume on October 10 , 2005 , and the last on July 3 , 2007 . A hardcover version of volume 1 was also released by Viz on September 16 , 2008 . Viz published Death Note 13 : How to Read on February 19 , 2008 , and collected the Death Note volumes along with Death Note 13 : How to Read into a box set on October 7 , 2008 .  __ TOC __

negative: E's is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and drawn by Satoru Yuiga . It was originally serialized in Monthly GFantasy from 1997 through 2005 , and later published in 16 tankōbon volumes by Square Enix from March 18 , 2003 to February 27 , 2010 . The series focuses on Kai Kudō , an `` Esper '' , who is recruited by an organization called Ashurum to become a soldier to purportedly save other psychics from regular humans . After a mission in Gald goes wrong , Kai finds himself living with a man named Yuuki and his adopted sister Asuka . As he learns more about Ashurum , Kai finds himself wondering what their true goals are , and worrying about his ill sister , who is under Ashurum 's care .   The series was adapted into a twenty-six episode anime series entitled by Studio Pierrot . It debuted in Japan on April 1 , 2003 on TV Tokyo ; the final episode aired on September 23 , 2003 . Two light novels and three drama CDs related to the series have also been released in Japan .   Broccoli Books licensed the manga series for English-language publication in North America in 2006 . ADV Films licensed the anime series for North American broadcast and distribution , with the English dubbed version of the series airing on Anime Network .

negative: Death Parade is a 2015 Japanese anime television series created , written , and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa and produced by Madhouse . The series spawned from a short film , , which was originally produced by Madhouse for the Young Animator Training Project 's Anime Mirai 2013 and released on March 2 , 2013 . The television series aired in Japan between January 9 , 2015 and March 27 , 2015 and is licensed in North America by Funimation , and in the United Kingdom by Anime Limited . The series was obtained by Madman Entertainment for digital distribution in Australia and New Zealand .

negative: Karakurizōshi Ayatsuri Sakon is a manga series written by Masaru Miyazaki ( under the alias Sharakumaro ) and illustrated by Takeshi Obata . The plot follows , a bunraku puppeteer who solves mysteries with , a puppet .   Karakurizōshi Ayatsuri Sakon was serialized in the Shueisha magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1995 to 1996 . The chapters were collected into four Tankōbon bound volumes . The manga was adapted into an animated television series by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and broadcast on the satellite network WOWOW from October 8 , 1999 , to March 31 , 2000 .

negative: Ultimate Otaku Teacher , subtitled He Is a Ultimate Teacher , is a 2011 Japanese manga series , written and illustrated by Takeshi Azuma . Two short anime clips , serving as promotion for the manga have been released , and an anime television series is in production , all of them by A-1 Pictures .

negative: Death Note (disambiguation) Death Note is a Japanese media franchise .   Death Note may also refer to :  Death Note ( 2006 film ) , a live-action film based on the franchise  Death Note 2 : The Last Name , the 2006 sequel  Death Note : Light Up the New World , the 2016 sequel  Death Note ( 2015 TV series ) , a live-action television series also based on the franchise  Death Note ( 2017 film ) , an American adaptation of the franchise  The Death Note , a 2016 Chinese horror film unrelated to the Japanese franchise  Suicide note , a message written prior to a suicide attempt

negative: Assassination Classroom is a Japanese comic science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Yūsei Matsui . The series was serialized on Shueisha 's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine from July 2012 to March 2016 and is licensed in English by Viz Media . The series follows the daily lives of an extremely powerful octopus-like teacher and his students dedicated to the task of assassinating him to prevent Earth from being destroyed . As of July 2016 , twenty-one tankōbon volumes have been released in Japan with a circulation of 20 million copies .   A single original video animation adaptation by Brain 's Base based on the series was screened at the Jump Super Anime Tour on October to November 2013 . This was followed by an anime television adaptation by Lerche , which began airing on Fuji TV in January 2015 . This adaptation has been licensed by Funimation for release in North America . The series was obtained by Madman Entertainment for digital distribution in Australia and New Zealand . A live action film adaptation was released on March 21 , 2015 , and a sequel , titled Assassination Classroom : Graduation , was released on March 25 , 2016 .

negative: Hiroyuki Asada is a Japanese manga artist who is best known for his gaslamp fantasy series Tegami Bachi ( `` Letter Bee '' ) . The first manga series he created was called I 'll , and was a basketball series . All of Asada 's manga were serialized in the monthly shōnen anthology Monthly Shōnen Jump ( which has since been discontinued ; Tegami Bachi now appears in its replacement Jump Square ) . He made his debut in 1986 . He acquired a fanbase with Mint : Sleeping Rabbit , Renka by degrees , and his popularity improved with I 'll . In his personal life , he is part of a unit with Shou Tajima ( best known for Psych ) and Takeshi Obata ( best known for Hikaru no Go and Death Note ) , and his creation activity with `` AQUARIOS 3 '' .

negative: Obatarian is a yonkoma manga series by Katsuhiko Hotta which was published by Takeshobo in Manga Life from 1988 through 1998 . An anime series was adapted from the manga in 1990 by Sunrise , which aired on TV Asahi . The title Obatarian ( or Obattalion ) is a Japanese buzzword from the late 1980s , created as a pun portmanteau of the Japanese word おば ( oba , meaning `` middle-aged woman '' ) and the Japanese title ( Battalion / バタリアン ) of the 1985 zombie comedy movie The Return of the Living Dead .   The series won the 1989 Bungeishunjū Manga Award .

negative: Planetes is a Japanese hard science fiction manga written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura . It was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series by Sunrise , which was broadcast on NHK from October 2003 through April 2004 . The story revolves around the crew of the debris collection craft , Toy Box , in the year 2075 .   The manga was published in English in North America by Tokyopop , and the anime was distributed in North America by Bandai Entertainment . Both the manga and anime received the Seiun Award for best science fiction series .

negative: Nanbaka , also known as Nanbaka - The Numbers , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shō Futamata . An anime television series adaptation by Satelight began airing on 5 October 2016 . The title is a play on words , combining the name of the prison , which is the Japanese transcription of the word `` number '' , and the Japanese word `` baka '' for `` fool '' or `` idiot '' .

negative: Soul Eater (manga) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo . Set at the `` Death Weapon Meister Academy '' , the series revolves around three teams , each consisting of a weapon meister and ( at least one ) weapon that can transform into a humanoid . Trying to make the latter a `` death scythe '' and thus fit for use by the academy 's headmaster Shinigami , the personification of death , they must collect the souls of 99 evil humans and one witch , in that order ; otherwise , they will have to start all over again .   The manga is published by Square Enix and was first released as three separate one-shots serialized in two Gangan Powered special editions and one Gangan Wing in 2003 . The manga started regular serialization in Square Enix 's Monthly Shōnen Gangan manga magazine from May 12 , 2004 to August 12 , 2013 . The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press . The English translated version of Soul Eater is serialized in Yen Press ' Yen Plus manga anthology magazine starting in July 2008 , and the first manga volume was released in October 2009 . A manga series that runs alongside the main series , titled Soul Eater Not ! , began serialization in Monthly Shōnen Gangan on January 12 , 2011 .   A single drama CD was produced on August 31 , 2005 which came bundled with an art book . A 51-episode anime adaptation produced by Bones aired on TV Tokyo in Japan from April 2008 to March 2009 ; Funimation licensed the anime series for North American distribution . An action-adventure video game by Square Enix for the Wii was released in September 2008 , and an action video game for the Nintendo DS was released in October 2008 . Another action game was released in January 2009 on the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable .

negative: New World (Death Note) `` New World '' ( `` Shinsekai '' 新世界 ) is the thirty-seventh episode and series finale of the Death Note anime . It debuted in Japanese on June 26 , 2007 ; English on July 4 , 2008 ; Hungarian on September 24 , 2008 ; Italian on July 4 , 2009 ; Spanish on October 30 , 2009 ; and German on November 27 , 2009 . This and the previous episode are the only two to be rated TV-MA .

negative: Shigofumi: Letters from the Departed Shigofumi : Letters from the Departed , titled in Japan , or simply Shigofumi , is a Japanese anime television series created by Tomorō Yuzawa and produced by Bandai Visual and Genco , which aired in Japan on Chiba TV and other networks between January 6 and March 22 , 2008 and contains twelve episodes . An original video animation episodes was included with the final anime DVD volume released on September 26 , 2008 . A light novel series was originally adapted from the anime 's premise set by Tomorō Yuzawa , featuring story composition and illustrations by Ryō Amamiya and Poko , respectively . Four novels were published by MediaWorks under their Dengeki Bunko imprint between October 2006 and March 2008 . Despite the novels being produced first , the anime is considered the original work , as stated by Yuzawa . The anime has been acquired by Bandai Visual for English language localization . The title Shigofumi comes from the combination of the Japanese words for , and , which literally translates to an `` after death letter '' .

negative: Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro . The manga was serialised in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1997 until 2002 . The series received the 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for children 's manga .

negative: Tokyo Ghoul is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series by Sui Ishida . It was serialized in Shueisha 's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Jump between September 2011 and September 2014 and has been collected in fourteen tankōbon volumes as of August 2014 . A sequel titled Tokyo Ghoul : re began serialization in the same magazine in October 2014 and a prequel titled Tokyo Ghoul Jack ran online on Jump Live .   A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by studio Pierrot aired on Tokyo MX between July and September 2014 . A 12-episode second season , Tokyo Ghoul √ A , which follows an original story , began airing on January 8 , 2015 , and concluded on March 26 , 2015 . In North America , Viz Media is publishing the manga while Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video distribution . The anime was obtained by Madman Entertainment for digital distribution in Australia . As of June 2016 , there were over 18 million copies of Tokyo Ghoul in circulation .   A live-action film based on the manga was announced in June 2016 to open the summer of 2017 .

negative: Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama . The series began in Kodansha 's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine on September 9 , 2009 , and has been collected into 22 tankōbon volumes as of April 2017 . It is set in a world where humanity lives in cities surrounded by enormous walls ; a defense against the Titans , gigantic humanoids that eat humans seemingly without reason . The story initially centers on Eren Yeager , his adopted sister Mikasa Ackerman and childhood friend Armin Arlert , who join the military to fight the Titans after their home town is invaded and Eren 's mother is eaten . However , as the story progresses and the truths about the Titans are slowly revealed to the reader , the narrative shifts to encompass Historia Reiss , squad leader Levi , Eren 's father Grisha , and other supporting characters .   The spin-off light novel series Before the Fall began in December 2011 and has received a manga adaptation . Two additional light novel series and four additional spin-off manga series have also been created . An anime television adaptation produced by Wit Studio and Production I.G aired in Japan on MBS between April and September 2013 and a second season of the series premiered in April 2017 . Four video game adaptations developed by Nitroplus staffers in collaboration with Production I.G were announced to be released as bonus content for the third and sixth volumes of the Blu-ray Disc release of the anime , with another game developed by Spike Chunsoft for the Nintendo 3DS . A two-part live-action film adaptation , Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan : End of the World , and a live-action web-series were released in 2015 . An anime adaptation of the Junior High spin-off manga , produced by Production I.G , began airing in October 2015 . Attack on Titan and all five spin-off manga are published in North America by Kodansha Comics USA , while the three novel series are published by Vertical . The anime has been licensed by Funimation for North America , by Manga Entertainment for the UK , and by Madman Entertainment for Australasia .   Attack on Titan has become a commercial success . As of April 2017 , the manga has 66 million copies in print . The release of the anime also saw a boost in the series ' popularity , with it having received widespread critical acclaim for its atmosphere and story . Although it also gained fame in neighboring Asian countries , the series ' themes have been a subject of controversy .


query: The Maltese language is a language that is Semitic.

positive: Maltese language Maltese ( links = no ) is the national language of Malta and a co-official language of the country alongside English , while also serving as an official language of the European Union , the only Semitic language so distinguished . Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic , the variety of Arabic that developed in Sicily and was later introduced to Malta , between the end of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth century . Maltese is a unique branch of Arabic because it has evolved independently of Literary Arabic into a standardized language over the past 800 years in a gradual process of Latinisation .   The original Semitic base ( Siculo-Arabic ) comprises around one-third of the Maltese vocabulary , especially words that denote basic ideas and the function words , but about half of the vocabulary is derived from standard Italian and Sicilian ; and English words make up between 6 % and 20 % of the vocabulary .   Maltese has always been written in the Latin script , the earliest surviving example dating from the late Middle Ages .

negative: Maltese Maltese may refer to :   Someone or something of , from , or related to Malta  Maltese alphabet  Maltese cuisine  Maltese culture  Maltese language , the Semitic language spoken by Maltese people  Maltese people , people from Malta or of Maltese descent

negative: Maltenglish Maltenglish , also known as Manglish , Minglish , Maltese English or Maltingliż , refers to the phenomenon of code-switching between Maltese , a Semitic language , and English , a Germanic language .   Both Maltese and English are official languages in Malta , and about 88 % of the Maltese people can speak English as a second language . Various Maltese social groups switch back and forth between the two languages , or macaronically mix lexical aspects of Maltese and English while engaging in informal conversation or writing .   Maltenglish can also refer to English loanwords in the Maltese language .

negative: Semitic The term Semitic most commonly refers to the Semitic languages , a name used since the 1770s to refer to the language family currently present in West Asia , North and East Africa , and Malta .   Semitic may also refer to :

negative: Languages of Malta Malta has two official languages : Maltese and English . Maltese is also the national language . Until 1934 Italian was also an official language in Malta .   Having been governed by many different countries in the past , the Maltese population is generally able to converse in languages which are not native to the country , namely English and Italian . According to the Eurobarometer poll conducted in 2012 , 98 % of Maltese people can speak Maltese , 88 % can speak English , 66 % can speak Italian , and more than 17 % speak French . This shows a recent increase in the fluency of languages , since in 1995 , only 98 % of the population spoke Maltese , 76 % English , 36 % Italian , and 10 % French . Surprisingly , it also shows an increase in Italian fluency compared to when Italian was an official language of Malta .   French , German and Spanish are the other main languages studied in secondary and tertiary education .

negative: Languages of Europe Most languages of Europe belong to the Indo-European language family . This family is divided into a number of branches , including Italic , Germanic , Baltic , Slavic , Albanian , Celtic , Armenian and Hellenic ( Greek ) . The Uralic languages , which include Hungarian , Finnish , and Estonian , also have a significant presence in Europe . The Turkic and Mongolic families also have several European members , whereas the Northwest Caucasian , Northeast Caucasian , and Kartvelian families are important in the centraleastern extremity of geographical Europe . The Basque language of the western Pyrenees is an isolate unrelated to any other group , while Maltese , which is descended from Sicilian Arabic , is the only Semitic language in Europe with national language status .

negative: National Council for the Maltese Language The National Council for the Maltese Language ( Il-Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ilsien Malti ) was founded in April 2005 with the enactment of the Maltese Language Act ( Att dwar l-Ilsien Malti ) ( Chap . 470 ) in the Maltese Parliament . Its work is to regulate new words coming into Maltese and promote the standard Maltese language in education and other new sectors . The Council consists of five committees which are : Media , Education , Language Research , Translations and Terminology and the Development of Maltese in the Information and Technology Sector . The Council 's aim is the language planning and promotion of the Maltese language , and thus to improve it by modernising its structures .   The National Council for the Maltese Language is a member of the EFNIL ( European Federation of National Institutions for Language ) in the EU .

negative: Maltese literature Maltese literature is any literature originating from Malta or by Maltese writers or literature written in the Maltese language .   This article will give an overview of the history of Maltese-language literature .

negative: West Semitic languages The West Semitic languages are a proposed major sub-grouping of ancient Semitic languages . The term was first coined in 1883 by Fritz Hommel .   The grouping , supported by semiticists like Robert Hetzron and John Huehnergard , divides the Semitic language family into two branches : Eastern and Western . The East Semitic languages consist of the extinct Eblaite and Akkadian languages , while the remaining majority of Semitic languages form the West Semitic languages grouping . It consists of the clearly defined sub-groups : Ethiopic , South Arabian , Arabic and Northwest Semitic ( this including Hebrew , Aramaic , Amorite and Ugaritic ) . The first two , Ethiopic and South Arabian , show particular common features , and are often grouped together as South Semitic . The correct classification of Arabic with respect to other Semitic languages is debated . In older classifications , it is grouped with the South Semitic languages . However , Hetzron and Huehnergard connect it more closely with the Northwest Semitic languages , to form Central Semitic . Some semiticists continue to argue for the older classification based on the distinctive feature of broken plurals . Some linguists also argue that Eteocypriot was a West Semitic language spoken in ancient Cyprus .

negative: Maltralian Maltralian ( in Maltese : Il-Maltraljan ) , is the Maltese language of Australia , spoken by Maltese emigrants in the continent .   The development of the Maltese language in a country far removed from Malta continued , in an environment that maintained a sense of origin and culture . It is essential to look to the history of this development in order to appreciate the Maltese dialect spoken in Australia .

negative: South Semitic languages South Semitic is a disputed branch of the Semitic languages . Semitic itself is a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family found in ( Northern and Eastern ) Africa and Western Asia .   South Semitic is divided into two uncontroversial branches : South Arabian , on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula , and Ethiopian Semitic , found across the Red Sea in the Horn of Africa , mainly in modern Ethiopia and Eritrea . The Ethiopian Semitic languages have by far the greatest numbers of modern native speakers , indeed of any Semitic language other than Arabic . Eritrea 's main languages are mainly Tigrinya and Tigre , which are North Ethiopic languages , while Amharic ( South Ethiopic ) is the main language spoken in Ethiopia ( along with Tigrinya in the northern province of Tigray ) . Ge'ez continues to be used in Ethiopia as a liturgical language for the Ethiopian Church . Southern Arabian languages have been increasingly eclipsed by the more dominant Arabic ( also a Semitic language ) for more than a millennium . The Ethnologue lists six modern members of the South Arabian branch and 14 members of the Ethiopian branch .   The `` homeland '' of the South Semitic languages is widely debated , with sources such as A. Murtonen ( 1967 ) , and Lionel Bender ( 1997 ) , suggesting an origin in Ethiopia while others suggest the southern portion of the Arabian peninsula . A recent study based on a Bayesian model to estimate language change concluded that the latter viewpoint is more probable .

negative: Arabic-based creole languages An Arabic-based creole language , or simply Arabic creole is a creole language which was significantly influenced by the Arabic language .   The main Arabic creoles are :   Nubi : An Arabic-based creole spoken by descendants of Sudanese soldiers mainly in Kenya and Uganda , formed in the nineteenth century from a Sudanese Arabic-based pidgin used for intercommunication among Southern Sudanese ethnic groups .  Juba Arabic : An Arabic-based pidgin or creole , spoken mainly in Equatoria Province in South Sudan  Babalia Creole Arabic : A Shuwa Arabic-based creole spoken in 23 villages of the Chari-Baguirmi Prefecture in southwestern Chad ; the substrate language was Berakou .  Maltese language : A heavily altered Arabic-based language spoken in Malta , influenced by many European languages ; most notably Italian , Sicilian , English , and French . Maltese also utilises a Latin script unlike the rest of Semitic languages

negative: Maltese Braille Maltese Braille is the braille alphabet of the Maltese language . It was in the news in 2005 with the publication of the first braille Bible in Maltese .

negative: Akkademja tal-Malti Akkademja tal-Malti was the prime regulatory body responsible for the Maltese language from the early 20th century up to the end of the millennium , when a Government sponsored law was passed to protect issues related to the national language . On joining the European Union , Maltese became one of the recognised languages of the EU - no mean achievement for a language spoken by less than half a million people .   Initially it was known as L-Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti ( Association of Writers of Maltese ) , Malta 's oldest literary society whose earliest activities go as far back as the early nineteen twenties , led by literary giants like Dun Karm , Ġużè Muscat Azzopardi and Ninu Cremona , it spearheaded the cause of the Maltese language . The Akkademja was mainly responsible for all the major linguistic and literary development of the Maltese language during the past century , developing linguistic academic initiatives which culminated in the national recognition of a standard written Maltese .   In 2005 the National Council for the Maltese Language was set up through a Law by the Maltese Parliament . This Council is nowadays the main regulatory body of the Maltese language instead of the L-Akkademja tal-Malti .

negative: Maltese Sign Language Maltese Sign Language ( Lingwa tas-Sinjali Maltija , LSM ) is a young sign language of Malta . It developed into its modern form circa 1980 with the establishment of the first Deaf club in Malta , and subsequently with its use in education for the deaf . LSM 's prior history is unrecorded , though there are some signs which indicate contact with British Sign Language ( Malta was a British colony until 1964 ) . These signs are relatively few , however , and LSM is not part of the BSL family ( Brentari 2010 ) .   Maria Galea has described the use of SignWriting when used to write Maltese Sign Language .   The Maltese public broadcaster PBS Ltd. began airing a nightly newscast in LSM on its TVM2 network in 2012 .

negative: Maltese people The Maltese ( Maltin ) are an ethnic group indigenous to Malta , and identified with the Maltese language . Malta is an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea . Included within the ethnic group defined by the Maltese people are the Gozitans ( Għawdxin ) who inhabit Malta 's sister island , Gozo .

negative: Atlantic (Semitic) languages The Atlantic languages of Semitic or `` Semitidic '' ( para-Semitic ) origin are a disputed concept in historical linguistics put forward by Theo Vennemann . The theory has found no notable acceptance in academic circles , and is criticised as being based on sparse and often misinterpreted data .

negative: Ethiopian Semitic languages Ethiopian Semitic ( also known as Ethiosemitic or Ethiopic , or in the past by a few linguists as Abyssinian due to geography ) is a language group which forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages . Several Ethiopian Semitic languages are spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia , with a small population of Tigre language speakers in Sudan . Amharic , the official working language in Ethiopia , has 36 million speakers and is the most widely spoken in the group . Tigrinya has 7 million speakers and is the most widely spoken language in Eritrea . However , this usage is not widespread .   The division into Northern and Southern branches was established by Cohen ( 1931 ) and Hetzron ( 1972 ) and garnered broad acceptance , but this classification has recently been challenged by Voigt .   While focused on Semitic languages as the only branch of the broader Afroasiatic languages that is also today distributed outside Africa , a recent study by Kitchen et al. . proposed through the use of Bayesian computational phylogenetic techniques that `` contemporary Ethiosemitic languages of Africa reflect a single introduction of early Ethiosemitic from southern Arabia approximately 2800 years ago '' , and that this single introduction of Ethiosemitic underwent `` rapid diversification '' within Eritrea and Ethiopia .   The Ethiopian Semitic languages all share subject -- object -- verb ( SOV ) word order as part of the Ethiopian language area .

negative: Siculo-Arabic Siculo-Arabic ( or Sicilian Arabic ) was a vernacular variety of Arabic once spoken in the islands of Sicily and neighbouring Malta between the end of the ninth century and the end of the twelfth century . The language became extinct in Sicily , but on the islands of Malta it eventually evolved into what is now the Maltese language .

negative: Semitic languages The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family originating in the Middle East . Semitic languages are spoken by more than 330 million people across much of Western Asia , North Africa and the Horn of Africa , as well as in often large expatriate communities in North America and Europe , with smaller communities in the Caucasus and Central Asia . The terminology was first used in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen School of History , who derived the name from Shem , one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis .   The most widely spoken Semitic languages today are ( numbers given are for native speakers only ) Arabic ( 300 million ) , Amharic ( 22 million ) , Tigrinya ( 7 million ) , Hebrew ( unknown ; 5 million native and non-native L1 speakers ) , Tigre ( 1.05 million in 2006 ) , Aramaic ( 575,000 to 1 million largely Assyrian fluent speakers ) and Maltese ( 520,000 speakers ) .   Semitic languages occur in written form from a very early historical date , with East Semitic Akkadian and Eblaite texts ( written in a script adapted from Sumerian cuneiform ) appearing from the 29th century BCE and the 25th century BCE in Mesopotamia and the northern Levant respectively . The only earlier attested written languages are Sumerian , Elamite ( both language isolates ) and Egyptian . However , most scripts used to write Semitic languages are abjadsa type of alphabetic script that omits some or all of the vowels , which is feasible for these languages because the consonants in the Semitic languages are the primary carriers of meaning .   Among them are the Ugaritic , Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew , Syriac , Arabic , and South Arabian alphabets . The Ge'ez script , used initially in Yemen , and later also for writing the Semitic languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea , is technically an abugida a modified abjad in which vowels are notated using diacritic marks added to the consonants at all times , in contrast with other Semitic languages which indicate diacritics based on need or for introductory purposes . Maltese is the only Semitic language written in the Latin script and the only Semitic language to be an official language of the European Union .   The Semitic languages are notable for their nonconcatenative morphology . That is , word roots are not themselves syllables or words , but instead are isolated sets of consonants ( usually three , making a so-called triliteral root ) . Words are composed out of roots not so much by adding prefixes or suffixes , but rather by filling in the vowels between the root consonants ( although prefixes and suffixes are often added as well ) . For example , in Arabic , the root meaning `` write '' has the form k-t-b . From this root , words are formed by filling in the vowels and sometimes adding additional consonants , e.g. كتاب kitāb `` book '' , كتب kutub `` books '' , كاتب kātib `` writer '' , كتّاب kuttāb `` writers '' , كتب kataba `` he wrote '' , يكتب yaktubu `` he writes '' , etc. .

negative: Proto-Semitic language Proto-Semitic is the hypothetical proto-language ancestral to historical Semitic languages of the Middle East . Places which have been proposed for its original Urheimat include northern Mesopotamia , the Arabian Peninsula , and the Levant , with a 2009 study proposing that it may have originated about 3800 BC . Semitic is considered a subfamily of the larger Afroasiatic macrofamily .

negative: Qalbi Qalbi , قلبي , also transcribed albee and galbi , is the Arabic word for `` my heart . '' It is used as a term of endearment .   `` Qalbi '' is also the Maltese word for `` my heart '' . Maltese is a Semitic language and has many words similar to those in the Arabic language , even in pronunciation .   Category : Arabic words and phrases

negative: Maltese in Egypt The Maltese of Egypt , also known as Egyptian Franco-Maltese , are an ethnic minority group in Egypt . Though culturally very similar to the Franco-Maltese of Tunisia and Algeria , most people of Maltese or part-Maltese descent born in Egypt remained British subjects . They are immigrants , or descendants of immigrants , from the islands of Malta , who settled in Egypt largely during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , and intermarried heavily with Italians , French and other Europeans . Those with a French father assumed French citizenship . Some Maltese had been present in the country as early as the era of Napoleon and his conquest of Egypt . The proximity between the two countries and the similarity between the Maltese and Arabic languages have led many Maltese to settle in Egypt in the past , mainly in Alexandria . Like the Italians who settled in Egypt , the Egyptian-born Maltese constituted a portion of Egypt 's Roman Catholic community . By 1939 , up to 20,000 Maltese were living in Egypt . Practically all of these were French-speaking , and those with a French parent had French as their mother tongue . In many middle-class families ( especially in Alexandria and Cairo ) a language shift had occurred , with Italian used as the home language alongside French ; a large minority of Egyptian Maltese ( for example those of the Suez Canal Zone ) still retained Maltese as their mother tongue . This number was greatly reduced by emigration years after , and almost completely wiped out by expulsions in 1956 due to the Maltese being British nationals . Most of the Egyptian Franco-Maltese settled in Australia or Britain , where they remained culturally distinct from immigrants from Malta . Those with French citizenship were repatriated to France . Post-war Malta in general did not accept refugees from Egypt .

negative: May Butcher May Butcher ( 26 August 1886 , Great Grimsby , Lincolnshire - 21 December 1950 , Malta ) was an English-born Maltese writer who translated several works from the Maltese language into English .   Butcher was the fourth of nine children of Colonel Henry Townsend Butcher and Annie Susan Dalrymple-Hay .   She translated the words of the Maltese national anthem ( L-Innu Malti ) , and translated the biography of Mikiel Anton Vassalli .   One of her most important works is the book Elements in Maltese , published in 1938 , which provides details not only on the Semitic aspect of the Maltese language , but also gives importance to the Romantic aspect .   A street in Iklin , Malta bears her name .

negative: Semitism Semitism may refer to :  Semitism ( linguistics ) , a grammatical or syntactical behaviour in a language which reveals that the influence of a Semitic language is present  Judaism  Philo-Semitism  Semitic people

negative: Maltese alphabet The Maltese alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet with the addition of some letters with diacritic marks and digraphs . It is used to write the Maltese language , which evolved from the extinct Siculo-Arabic dialect , as a result of 800 years independent development . It contains 30 letters :   Aa Bb Ċċ Dd Ee Ff Ġġ Gg Għgħ Hh Ħħ Ii Ieie Jj Kk   Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Żż Zz

negative: Northwest Semitic languages Northwest Semitic is a division of the Semitic language family comprising the indigenous languages of the Levant .  It would have emerged from Common Semitic in the Early Bronze Age . It is first attested in proper names identified as Amorite in the Middle Bronze Age . The oldest coherent texts are in Ugaritic , dating to the Late Bronze Age , which by the time of the Bronze Age collapse are joined by Old Aramaic , and by the Iron Age by the Canaanite languages ( Phoenician and Hebrew ) .   The term was coined by Carl Brockelmann in 1908 , who separated Fritz Hommel 's 1883 classification of `` West Semitic languages '' into Northwest ( Canaanite and Aramaic ) and Southwest ( Arabic and Abyssinian ) .   Brockelmann 's Canaanite sub-group includes Ugaritic , Phoenician and Hebrew . Some scholars would now separate Ugaritic as a separate branch of Northwest Semitic alongside Canaanite .  Central Semitic is a proposed intermediate group comprising Northwest Semitic and Arabic .  Central Semitic is either a subgroup of West Semitic , or a top-level division of Semitic alongside East Semitic and South Semitic . SIL Ethnologue in its system of classification ( of living languages only ) eliminates Northwest Semitic entirely by joining Canaanite and Arabic in a `` South-Central '' group which together with Aramaic forms Central Semitic .   it is clear that Taymanitic script expressed a distinct linguistic variety that is not Arabic and not closely related to Hismaic or Safaitic , while it can tentatively be suggested that it was more closely related to Northwest Semitic .

negative: Zay language Zay ( also Lak ` i/Laqi ) is an Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch spoken in Ethiopia . It is one of the Gurage languages in the Ethiopian Semitic group . The Zay language has around 5,000 speakers known as the Zay , who inhabit Gelilla and the other five islands and shores of Lake Zway in the southern part of the country .

negative: Qormi dialect One of the dialects of the Maltese language is the Qormi Dialect . In standard Maltese it is termed Qormi and by its speakers , Qurmi , and is affectionately known as it-Tuf , or in . standard Maltese , it-Taf . Literally translated , taf is the Maltese word for `` you know '' . This dialect is used by many of the inhabitants of Qormi and other settlements around that city of around twenty thousand people . The most distinctive feature of the Qormi dialect lies in its treatment of vowels .   Although there is no strict rule , generally the vowels in the dialect take the following forms . Vowels in the first syllables are the ones most often affected , but sometimes medial vowels are changed as well . Final vowels , on the other hand , are usually identical to those of the standard language .

negative: West Semitic West Semitic may refer to :  The West Semitic languages  Abjads , consonantal alphabets used to write western Semitic languages

negative: Emphatic consonant In Semitic linguistics , an emphatic consonant is an obstruent consonant which originally contrasted with series of both voiced and voiceless obstruents . In specific Semitic languages , the members of this series may be realized as uvularized or pharyngealized , velarized , ejective , or plain voiced or voiceless consonants . It is also used , to a lesser extent , to describe cognate series in other Afro-Asiatic languages , where they are typically realized as either ejective or implosive consonants .   In Semitic studies , they are commonly transcribed using the convention of placing a dot under the closest plain obstruent consonant in the Latin alphabet . With respect to particular Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages , this term describes the particular phonetic feature which distinguishes these consonants from other consonants . Thus , in Arabic emphasis is synonymous with a secondary articulation involving retraction of the dorsum or root of the tongue , which has variously been described as velarization or pharyngealization depending on where the locus of the retraction is assumed to be . Original emphatic k developed into a voiceless uvular stop in most Semitic languages ; stricly speaking , it is thus not an emphatic version of k anymore , but rather a completely different consonant . ( Accordingly , another common transcription in Semitic languages is q ) .   Within Arabic , the emphatic consonants vary in phonetic realization from dialect to dialect , but are typically realized as pharyngealized consonants . In Ethiopian and Modern South Arabian languages , they are realized as ejective consonants . While these sounds do not necessarily share any particular phonetic properties in common , most historically derive from a common source .   Five such `` emphatic '' phonemes are reconstructed for Proto-Semitic :   General Modern Hebrew and Maltese are notable exceptions among Semitic languages to the presence of emphatic consonants . In both languages , they have been lost under the influence of Indo-European languages .  In Hebrew , the letter tsadi ( from Proto-Semitic , , ) remains distinct as an affricate -LSB- / ts / -RSB- , but without pharyngealization . Emphatic has been merged with plain k in some positions , but remains distinct post-vocally , where the plain consonant becomes -LSB- / x / -RSB- , while the original emphatic does not . Semitic has been fully merged with plain t.  In Maltese , only emphatic ( = q ) remains distinct , having developed into a glottal stop . All other emphatics have been merged into plain consonants . However , they are sometimes still recognizable from special vocalic developments that they triggered before the mergers . Compare sejf ( `` sword '' ) with sajf ( `` summer '' ) , which latter originally had an emphatic ṣ that prevented the a from becoming e ( as it did in the former word with a plain s ) .

negative: Marija l-Maltija `` Marija l-Maltija '' ( `` Maria the Maltese Lass '' , `` Mary the Maltese Girl '' or `` The Maltese Maria '' ) was the Maltese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 , performed in Maltese by Joe Grech . This was Malta 's debut Eurovision entry and consequently the first time that the Maltese language or any other Semitic language was heard at the Contest .   The song is an up-tempo number , with Grech describing his feelings as he waits at the main bus terminal in Valletta for his lover to arrive . He also describes the girl , who he declares is very worthy of being named `` The Maltese Maria '' .   The song was performed second on the night , following Austria 's Marianne Mendt with `` Musik '' and preceding Monaco 's Séverine with `` Un banc , un arbre , une rue '' . At the close of voting , it had received 52 points , placing 18th ( last ) in a field of 18 . The abnormally high score by modern standards for a last-place finish is due to the voting system in place at the time , whereby all songs were guaranteed at least 34 points .   It was succeeded as Maltese representative at the 1972 contest by Helen & Joseph with `` L-imħabba '' .

negative: Malta Malta ( -LSB- ˈmɒltə -RSB- -LSB- ˈmɐltɐ -RSB- ) , officially known as the Republic of Malta ( Repubblika ta ' Malta ) , is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea . It lies 80 km south of Italy , 284 km east of Tunisia , and 333 km north of Libya . The country covers just over 316 km2 , with a population of just under 450,000 , making it one of the world 's smallest and most densely populated countries . The capital of Malta is Valletta , which at 0.8 km2 , is the smallest national capital in the European Union by area . Malta has one national language , which is Maltese , and English as an official language .   Malta 's location in the middle of the Mediterranean has historically given it great strategic importance as a naval base , and a succession of powers , including the Phoenicians , Carthaginians , Greeks , Romans , Byzantines , Moors , Normans , Sicilians , Spanish , Knights of St. John , French and British , have ruled the islands .   King George VI of the United Kingdom awarded the George Cross to Malta in 1942 for the country 's bravery in the Second World War . The George Cross continues to appear on Malta 's national flag . Under the Malta Independence Act , passed by the British Parliament in 1964 , Malta gained independence from the United Kingdom as an independent sovereign Commonwealth realm , officially known from 1964 to 1974 as the State of Malta , with Elizabeth II as its head of state . The country became a republic in 1974 , and although no longer a Commonwealth realm , remains a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations . Malta was admitted to the United Nations in 1964 and to the European Union in 2004 ; in 2008 , it became part of the Eurozone .   Malta has a long Christian legacy and its Archdiocese of Malta is claimed to be an apostolic see because , according to Acts of the Apostles , St Paul was shipwrecked on `` Melita '' , now widely taken to be Malta . Catholicism is the official religion in Malta .   Malta is a popular tourist destination with its warm climate , numerous recreational areas , and architectural and historical monuments , including three UNESCO World Heritage Sites : Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum , Valletta , and seven Megalithic Temples , which are some of the oldest free-standing structures in the world .


query: Clueless (film) was followed by a spin-off television sitcom with the same name.

positive: Clueless (film) Clueless is a 1995 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Amy Heckerling . It stars Alicia Silverstone , Stacey Dash , Paul Rudd and Brittany Murphy , and was produced by Scott Rudin and Robert Lawrence . It is loosely based on Jane Austen 's 1815 novel Emma , updating the setting to modern Beverly Hills . Elements of the plot were also originally drawn from Shakespeare 's Titus Andronicus , but were later omitted due to lack of continuity .   The film grossed $ 56 million in the United States , received generally positive reviews from critics , and has developed a cult following . The film was followed by a spin-off television sitcom and series of books .

positive: Clueless (TV series) Clueless is an American sitcom based on the 1995 teen film of the same name ( which was inspired by the Jane Austen book Emma ) . The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20 , 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season . The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ending on May 25 , 1999 .

negative: List of Clueless characters This is a list of characters in the original film version of Clueless and its subsequent television spin-off . The original characters were created by Amy Heckerling , writer and director of the film .

negative: Bless This House (film) Bless This House is a 1972 British comedy film and a spin-off from the television sitcom Bless This House .

negative: It's Punky Brewster It 's Punky Brewster is an animated spin-off of the live action television sitcom Punky Brewster . It was animated by Ruby-Spears Productions .

negative: The Ropers The Ropers is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from March 13 , 1979 , to May 22 , 1980 . It is a spin-off of Three 's Company and loosely based on the British sitcom George and Mildred , which was itself a spin-off of Man About the House , on which Three 's Company was based .   It was taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood , California , where its parent series , Three 's Company , was taping at the time , from February to April 1979 ( Season 1 ) and from July 1979 to February 1980 ( Season 2 ) .

negative: Alabang Girls Alabang Girls is a Filipino sitcom produced by Viva Television and co-produced and aired by ABC ( now TV5 ) from 1992 -- 1994 . This is a spin-off of the movie of the same name which was produced by Viva Films .

negative: List of television spin-offs A spin-off in television is a new series which contains either characters , a different character or theme elements from a previous series . They are particularly common in situation comedy . A related phenomenon , not to be confused with the spin-off , is the crossover .   A revival series , a later remake of a pre-existing show , is not a spin-off ( e.g. . The Battlestar Galactica series of 2003 is a revival , not a spin-off of the 1978 version ) . An exception can be made to series such as The Transformers where the lines of continuity are blurred . If a television pilot was written but never shot , it is not considered a spin-off . When a show undergoes a name change , it is not necessarily a spin-off .   Neither is a reboot series , a term recently invented for motion pictures , which can also occur in television . This is distinct from a revival in that there is little or no attempt to retain continuity with the original . A recent example is the 1987 series Beauty and the Beast , rebooted as the 2012 Beauty & the Beast , which keeps only the main premise of a female law enforcement official aided by a man-beast , the New York City locale , and the names of the two main characters .   Some spin-offs are `` engineered '' to introduce a character to one show , just so that that character can anchor a new show ( that episode of the original show is often known as a `` backdoor pilot '' ) . For example , the character Avery Ryan appeared in two episodes of the Las Vegas-based CSI : Crime Scene Investigation before the premiere of CSI : Cyber . Shows such as Enterprise , What I Like About You , and Deadline which have no immediate connection to previous series but are still known to exist within the same fictional sphere are also spin-offs .

negative: Harry and the Hendersons (TV series) Harry and the Hendersons is an American sitcom based on the film of the same name , produced by Amblin Television for Universal Television . The series aired in syndication from January 13 , 1991 to June 18 , 1993 , with 72 half-hour episodes produced . The series is about a family who adopts a Bigfoot called Harry .

negative: Clueless (novels) The Clueless series is a series of young adult novels , mainly written by H. B. Gilmour and Randi Reisfeld . The series is published by Simon & Schuster . The series was generated after the release of the 1995 movie starring Alicia Silverstone .

negative: Spin-off (media) In media , a spin-off ( or spinoff ) is a radio program , television program , video game , film , or any narrative work , derived from one or more already existing works , that focuses , in particular , in more detail on one aspect of that original work ( e.g. a particular topic , character , or an event ) .   A spin-off may be called a sidequel when it exists in the same chronological frame of time as its predecessor work . One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era , if not the first , happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the old time radio comedy show Fibber McGee and Molly became the star of his own program The Great Gildersleeve ( 1941 -- 1957 ) .   In genre fiction , the term parallels the usage in television ; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial change in narrative viewpoint and activity from that ( previous ) storyline based on the activities of the series ' principal protagonist ( s ) and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist ( s ) , which now becomes the central or main thread ( storyline ) of the new sub-series . The new protagonist generally appears first as a minor or supporting character in the main story line within a given milieu , and it is very common for the previous protagonist to have a supporting or cameo role , at the least as a historical mention , in the new sub-series . Spin offs sometimes generate their own spin-offs , leaving the new show in its own series only vaguely connected to the original series .

negative: Father, Dear Father Father , Dear Father is a British television sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV from 1968 to 1973 starring Patrick Cargill . It was subsequently made into a spin-off film of the same title released in 1973 .   An Australian sequel series , also titled Father , Dear Father , ( but usually referenced as Father , Dear Father in Australia to distinguish it from the UK original ) , followed in 1978 .

negative: Empty Nest Empty Nest is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from October 8 , 1988 to April 29 , 1995 . The series , which was created as a spin-off of The Golden Girls by creator and producer Susan Harris , starred Richard Mulligan as recently widowed pediatrician Dr Harry Weston , whose two adult daughters return home to live with him .   For its first three seasons , Empty Nest was one of the year 's top 10 most-watched programs . It was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions in association with Touchstone Television .   Empty Nest was part of NBC 's Saturday night block of programming , and during its first four seasons it aired at 9:30 pm ET , directly following The Golden Girls .

negative: Dumb and Dumber Dumb and Dumber is a 1994 American comedy road film starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels . It was written by the Farrelly brothers and Bennett Yellin , and is the Farrelly brothers ' directorial debut . The film tells the story of Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne , two unintelligent but well-meaning friends from Providence , Rhode Island who set out on a cross-country trip to Aspen , Colorado to return a briefcase full of money to its owner , only to be pursued by a group of criminals who are after the briefcase .   The film was released on December 16 , 1994 . It grossed $ 247 million at the box office and has developed a cult following in the years since its release . The success of Dumb and Dumber launched the career of the Farrelly brothers and solidified Carrey 's . The film also spawned an animated TV series , a 2003 prequel , and a 2014 sequel .

negative: Totally Clueless Totally Clueless is an American hidden camera game show on MTV that premiered on October 22 , 2012 .

negative: Clueless (House) `` Clueless '' is the fifteenth episode of the second season of House and thirty-seventh overall , which premiered on Fox on March 28 , 2006 . It was written by Thomas L. Moran and directed by Deran Serafian .

negative: María Victoria María Victoria Cervantes Cervantes ( born 26 February 1933 in Guadalajara , Jalisco ) , more commonly known simply as María Victoria , is a Mexican actress , singer , and comedian who is best known for starring as the hilarious , outspoken maid named Inocencia in the Telesistema Mexicano sitcom La criada bien criada and its 1972 spin-off film of the same name .

negative: The Dustbinmen The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV , which starred Bryan Pringle , Trevor Bannister , Graham Haberfield and Tim Wylton . The show was a spin-off from a one-off 90-minute television film There 's a Hole in Your Dustbin , Delilah ( 1968 ) written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted . This led to the sitcom which ran for three series between 1969 and 1970 . Rosenthal wrote all of the episodes of the first two series .

negative: Twink Caplan Twink Caplan ( born December 25 , 1947 ) is an American actress , comedian , and producer . She is probably best known for her roles in the box office hits Clueless and the Look Who 's Talking series . As a producer , her best-known projects were Clueless ( associate producer ) and its television spin-off ( executive producer ) .

negative: The Fenn Street Gang The Fenn Street Gang is a British television sitcom which ran for three seasons between 1971 and 1973 . The series was created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey , it was a spin off from their popular Please Sir ! series .

negative: Mickey Mouse and Friends (TV series) Mickey Mouse and Friends is an American animated television spin-off by Mickey 's Mouse Tracks that premiered on Disney Channel in 1994 with animated shorts that featured characters like Mickey Mouse , Minnie Mouse , Pluto and more . The show ended in 1997 .

negative: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990 TV series) Bill & Ted 's Excellent Adventures is a 1990 spin-off animated television series following the misadventures of two time-travelling slackers as they travel into the distant past and future . It was based on the 1989 film , Bill & Ted 's Excellent Adventure '' and is part of the Bill & Ted franchise .

negative: Casa Pierpiero Casa Pierpiero is an Italian television sitcom airing on Disney Channel Italy . A spin-off of Quelli dell ` Intervallo Cafe , the series follows young Pierpiero ( Federico Mezzottoni ) , a rich boy who falls in love with a goth girl .

negative: Nearest and Dearest (film) Nearest and Dearest is a 1972 British comedy film starring Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as feuding brother and sister Nellie and Eli Pledge , owners of `` Pledge 's Purer Pickles '' . A spin-off from the long running TV sitcom of the same name , it was produced by Hammer Films in conjunction with a film making arm of Granada TV . As well as starring in the film , Hylda Baker also sings the title theme song . Despite the popularity of the TV series , the film version failed to match that success at the box office .

negative: Benson (TV series) Benson is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 13 , 1979 , to April 19 , 1986 . The series is a spin-off of the soap opera parody Soap in which the character Benson , portrayed by Robert Guillaume , had first appeared as the wise-cracking yet level-headed African-American butler for the highly dysfunctional Tate family . However , Benson eschewed the soap opera format of its parent show for a more conventional sitcom structure . The series was created by Susan Harris , and produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions . In 1985 , Guillaume won an Emmy award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in the show .

negative: List of The Munsters episodes The following is an episode list for the CBS sitcom The Munsters . The series broadcast on September 24 , 1964 , and ended on May 12 , 1966 . Munster , Go Home ! was a feature-length film released on June 15 , 1966 , as a spin-off from the main series . ( Robert Pine , long before his regular series role in `` CHiPs , '' appeared in it as a suitor for Marilyn , the `` ugly black sheep '' of the family . ) A second spin-off , called The Munsters ' Revenge , aired on television 15 years later on February 27 , 1981 .

negative: Stacey Dash Stacey Lauretta Dash ( born January 20 , 1967 ) is an American actress and talk show host , best known for co-starring in the 1995 feature film Clueless and the television series spinoff of the same name . She has also appeared in films such as Moving , Mo ' Money , Renaissance Man and View from the Top . Other television work by Dash includes appearances in series such as CSI : Crime Scene Investigation , Single Ladies and the reality television show Celebrity Circus . She has also appeared in music videos for Carl Thomas ' `` Emotional '' and Kanye West 's `` All Falls Down '' . Dash was a co-host on Fox News talk show Outnumbered .

negative: Clueless (game show) Clueless ( Gra w ciemno , lit . `` playing in the dark '' ) was a Polish game show hosted by Krzysztof Ibisz that ran from 2005 to 2007 on Polsat .

negative: Dumb and Dumber (TV series) Dumb and Dumber : The Animated Series is a Hanna-Barbera-produced animated series based on the 1994 comedy film of the same name . The animated series premiered in 1995 on ABC .   The cartoon revolves around the continued misadventures of Lloyd and Harry after reacquiring their dogshaped van now named `` Otto '' . It also features a new character , Kitty , a female pet purple beaver who appears to be smarter than both men . It is the final Hanna-Barbera-produced show to premiere on ABC ( as well as the final Hanna-Barbera-produced show to air on broadcast network television ) and one of the last Saturday morning cartoons on the network not associated with The Walt Disney Company .   Matt Frewer provided the voice of Lloyd Christmas ( Jim Carrey 's character in the movie ) , while Bill Fagerbakke voiced the character of Harry Dunne ( Jeff Daniels ' character in the movie ) . The animated series was written by Bennett Yellin , co-writer of the original film . The series was cancelled after one season . It aired in reruns on Cartoon Network after its cancellation .   In Britain , the series was screened on Cartoon Network before receiving terrestrial airings on Channel 4 ( unlike The Mask : Animated Series and Ace Ventura : Pet Detective , two other shows based on a film starring Jim Carrey , both of which were shown by the BBC ) .   A tape containing some episodes of the show , including `` Dumb Luck '' , was released in Australia and Russia in the 1990s , but in the United States , there were never any tapes of the show released on home video .

negative: The Brady Kids The Brady Kids is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series and a spin-off based on the ABC live-action sitcom The Brady Bunch , produced by Filmation in association with Paramount Television . It aired on ABC from September 9 , 1972 , to October 6 , 1973 , and also spun off another Filmation series , Mission : Magic ! , starring rock star Rick Springfield . The series is distributed by CBS Television Distribution .

negative: Nonno Felice Nonno Felice is an Italian sitcom . It has a spin-off , Norma e Felice .

negative: Rhoda Morgenstern Rhoda Faye Morgenstern , portrayed by Valerie Harper , is a character on the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show and subsequent spin-off Rhoda .

negative: Norman Fell Norman Fell ( born Norman Noah Feld , March 24 , 1924 -- December 14 , 1998 ) , was an American actor of film and television , most famous for his role as landlord Mr. Roper on the sitcom Three 's Company and its spin-off , The Ropers .

negative: Steptoe and Son (film) Steptoe and Son is a 1972 British comedy drama film and a spin-off from the popular British television comedy series of the same name about two father and son rag and bone men . It starred Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett as the eponymous characters , Albert and Harold Steptoe respectively . It also features Carolyn Seymour . A sequel Steptoe and Son Ride Again was released the following year .


query: Corsica is an book.

positive: Corsica Corsica ( -LSB- ˈkɔrsɪkə -RSB- Corse -LSB- kɔʁs -RSB- Corsican and Italian : Corsica -LSB- ˈkɔrsika -RSB- ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 13 regions of France . It is located west of the Italian Peninsula , southeast of the French mainland , and north of the Italian island of Sardinia . A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of the island .   While being part of France , Corsica is also designated as a territorial collectivity ( collectivité territoriale ) by law . As a territorial collectivity , Corsica enjoys a greater degree of autonomy than other French regions ; for example , the Corsican Assembly is able to exercise limited executive powers .   The island formed a single department until it was split in 1975 into two departments : Haute-Corse ( Upper Corsica ) and Corse-du-Sud ( Southern Corsica ) , with its regional capital in Ajaccio , the prefecture city of Corse-du-Sud . Bastia , the prefecture city of Haute-Corse , is the second-largest settlement in Corsica .   After being ruled by the Republic of Genoa since 1284 , Corsica was briefly an independent Corsican Republic from 1755 until it was conquered by France in 1769 . Due to Corsica 's historical ties with the Italian peninsula , the island retains to this day many elements of the culture of Italy . The native Corsican language , whose northern variant is closely related to the Italian language , is recognised as a regional language by the French government . This Mediterranean island was ruled by various nations over the course of history but had several brief periods of independence .   Napoleon was born in 1769 in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio . His ancestral home , Maison Bonaparte , is today used as a museum .

negative: Invasion of Corsica Invasion of Corsica may refer to a number of historical events including :   Invasion of Corsica ( 1553 )  French Conquest of Corsica  British Intervention in Corsica ( 1794 )

negative: Corsica and Sardinia The Province of Corsica and Sardinia ( Provincia Corsica et Sardinia ) was an ancient Roman province including the islands of Corsica and Sardinia .

negative: Italian occupation of Corsica Italian-occupied Corsica refers to the military ( and administrative ) occupation by the Kingdom of Italy of the island of Corsica during World War II . It lasted from November 1942 to September 1943 .

negative: Corsica, Pennsylvania Corsica is a borough in Jefferson County , Pennsylvania , United States . The population was 354 at the 2000 census . It was named for the Island of Corsica , birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte . The mayor of Corsica is Dave Leadbetter .

negative: Haute-Corse Haute-Corse ( -LSB- ot.kɔʁs -RSB- ; Corsica suprana ) ( Upper Corsica ) is a department of France consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica .

negative: Corse-du-Sud Corse-du-Sud ( -LSB- kɔʁs.dy.syd -RSB- ; Corsica suttana ) ( South Corsica ) is a department of France consisting of the southern part of the island of Corsica .

negative: Italian irredentism in Corsica Italian irredentism in Corsica was a cultural and historical movement promoted by Italians and by Corsicans who identified themselves as Italian , rather than French or just Corsican , and promoted the Italian annexation of Corsica .

negative: Corsica wine Corsica wine is wine made on the Mediterranean island of Corsica . Located 90 km west of Italy , 170 km southeast of France and 11 km north of the island of Sardinia , the island is a territorial collectivity of France , but many of the region 's winemaking traditions and its grape varieties are Italian in origin . The region 's viticultural history can be traced to the island 's settlement by Phoceans traders in 570 BC in what is now the commune of Aléria . In the 18th century , the island came under the control of France . Following the independence of Algeria from French rule , many Algerian Pieds-Noirs immigrated to Corsica and began planting vineyards . Between 1960 and 1976 the vineyard area in Corsica increased fourfold . In 1968 , Patrimonio was established as Corsica 's first Appellation d'origine contrôlée ( AOC ) . Today , Corsica has nine AOC regions including the island-wide designation Vin de Corse AOC . The majority of the wine exported from Corsica falls under the Vin de pays designation Vin de Pays de l'Île de Beauté ( Country wine from the Island of Beauty ) . The three leading grape varieties of the region are Nielluccio , known as the spice wine of France , Sciacarello and Vermentino .

negative: Asterix in Corsica Asterix in Corsica is the twentieth volume of the Asterix comic book series , by René Goscinny ( stories ) and Albert Uderzo ( artwork ) . It was originally serialized in Pilote issues 687-708 in 1973 . It is the best-selling title in the history of the series , owing to its sales in the French market , but is one of the lowest-selling titles in the English language .

negative: Jacques Follorou Jacques Follorou ( born 1968 ) is a French journalist for Le Monde . He is the author of several books , including three about organized crime in Corsica .

negative: Invasion of Corsica (1553) The Invasion of Corsica of 1553 occurred when French , Ottoman and Corsican exile forces combined to capture the island of Corsica from the Genoese .   The island had considerable strategic importance in the western Mediterranean , being at the heart of the Habsburg communication network and serving as a forced stopover for small boats sailing between Spain and Italy .   The island had been administered since 1453 by the Genoese Bank of Saint George . The invasion of Corsica was accomplished for the benefit of France .   The island had major strategic importance , as it was located on the sea route between Spain and Italy , which was vital for the Holy Roman Empire .

negative: Genista corsica Genista corsica is endemic to Corsica and Sardinia where it is associated with sunny open landscapes and poor stony soil . It is a common constituent of garrigue and maquis communities .

negative: Corsica Libera Corsica Libera ( Free Corsica ) is a left-wing separatist political party active in Corsica . It was founded in Corte in February 2009 by members of three nationalist parties , Corsica Nazione , Rinnovu and the Corsican Nationalist Alliance   Corsica Libera advocates full independence for Corsica and it does not condemn the violent actions by groups such as the National Liberation Front of Corsica . The party distinguished itself with its symbolic occupation of Christian Clavier 's Corsican residence ,  The party has three seats in the Corsican Assembly and a number of local councillors , including the mayor of Granace ( a little southern Corsican village ) .   The party 's candidate in the 2010 territorial elections , Jean-Guy Talamoni , won 9.36 % of the vote and qualified for the runoff . In the first round of the 2015 French regional elections , Corsica Libera got 7,73 % of the vote .

negative: 2010 Corsica Football Cup 2010 Corsica Football Cup , Corsica won .

negative: Corsica Nazione Corsica Nazione ( Corsican Nation ) is a Corsican nationalist party which aims to gain control over Corsica from France , regain national rights , and promote the Corsican national identity . The Corsican Nation have been struggling for a national identity since the Treaty of Versailles ( 1768 ) when they were annexed to France and claim to be repressed culturally , economically , and socially .

negative: Corsican Assembly The Corsican Assembly ( Assemblea di Corsica L'Assemblée de Corse ) is the unicameral legislative body of the territorial collectivity of Corsica . It has its seat at the Grand Hôtel d'Ajaccio et Continental , in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio .

negative: The Corsican File The Corsican File is a 2004 French comedy film directed by Alain Berbérian . It is based on the comic book of the same name , one of the stories from the Jack Palmer series by René Pétillon .   The film is produced by Gaumont and Legend , and written by Christian Clavier and Michel Delgado . The story follows the escapades of private investigator Jack Palmer , a pseudonym of Rêmi Francois , trying to locate a man living on the island of Corsica who is to inherit a property from a will .   Nicolas Jouenne of Le Figaro said , `` And you must admit that the two actors stick to their characters perfectly ! Although he has not adopted the unmistakable look of Jack Palmer , Christian Clavier is shown in a relatively convincing interpretation while retaining far from his usual bidding a bit boring . Facing him , Jean Reno turns out perfect in solitary independence leader and blood , in addition to the Corsican accent ! '' ( Machine translation of the original )

negative: The Corsican Brothers The Corsican Brothers ( Les Frères corses ) is a novella by Alexandre Dumas , père , first published in 1844 . It is the story of two conjoined brothers who , though separated at birth , can still feel each other 's pains . It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film .

negative: University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli The University of Corsica Pasquale Paoli ( Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli , Université de Corse Pascal Paoli ) is a French university , based in Corte , Haute-Corse . It is under the Academy of Corsica .

negative: Cavallo (island) Cavallo is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea located between Corsica and Sardinia . It is politically a part of France and its recent history is tied to Corsica .

negative: Constitutional Project for Corsica Constitutional Project for Corsica ( Project de constitution pour la Corse ) is the second of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 's three works on political affairs -- the first being The Social Contract , and the last being Considerations on the Government of Poland .

negative: Anglo-Corsican Kingdom The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom was a client state of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed on the island of Corsica between 1794 and 1796 , during the French Revolutionary Wars .

negative: Corsica Ferries - Sardinia Ferries Corsica Ferries - Sardinia Ferries ( Corsica Ferries France SAS ) -- ( Forship SpA ) , is a France-Italy based ferry company that operates traffic to and from the islands of Corsica , Sardinia and Elba .   Corsica Sardinia Ferries is a ferry company which started services in 1967 under the name of Corsica Line with the ferry Corsica Express . Since the company 's humble beginnings it has grown into what is today the market leader to Corsica and Sardinia . Corsica Sardinia Ferries is the premier ferry operator on the Western Mediterranean Sea transporting more than 1 million passengers annually aboard their ferries running to and from France and Italy to Corsica , Sardinia and Elba .   Corsica Sardinia Ferries operate 2 return routes from Italy to Sardinia and 10 return routes from France and Italy to Corsica , with a total of up to 13 crossings daily .   The fleet currently consists of 14 vessels . Thanks to its no-frills economical model , the company represents today 60 % of the maritime traffic to Corsica .   In 2005 , Forship Spa , a subsidiary of Corsica Sardinia Ferries , has been condemned to pay 490 000 euros by the Tribunal of Marseille for having `` voluntary discharged at sea '' offshore of the Cap Corse on May 12 , 2004 .

negative: Marc Biancarelli Marc Biancarelli ( born 1968 ) is a Corsican novelist and writer . Born in 1968 , he teaches the Corsican language in a high school in southern Corsica . He is the author of several books in Corsican , one of which Murtoriu has been translated into French by Actes Sud .

negative: Zygaena corsica Zygaena corsica is a species of moth in the Zygaenidae family . It is found on Corsica and Sardinia .   The larvae feed on Santolina insularis and Plagius flosculosum .

negative: Music of Corsica Outside France the island of Corsica is perhaps best known musically for its polyphonic choral tradition . The rebirth of this genre was linked with the rise of Corsican nationalism in the 1970s . The anthem of Corsica is `` Dio vi Salvi Regina '' .   Every June , Calvi is home to an International Jazz Festival and in September there are the annual Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques .

negative: French conquest of Corsica The French conquest of Corsica took place during 1768 and 1769 when the Corsican Republic was occupied by French forces under the command of the Comte de Vaux .   France received de jure control of the island of Corsica as a pledge from the Genoese Republic via the Treaty of Versailles in 1768 . Genoa still claimed ownership of the island , although since 1755 , Corsicans had achieved virtual independence and had written a Corsican Constitution ( in Italian ) . After abandoning any hope of recovering Corsica by force , the Genoese chose to sell their rights over the island to France who were keen to gain new territory to replace territory lost during the Seven Years ' War .   France 's initial offensive failed after a significant defeat was suffered at the Battle of Borgo in October 1768 . France dispatched large numbers of reinforcements , swelling the size of their army there to 24,000 . The Corsican army suffered a major setback at the Battle of Ponte Novu and the French forces soon overran the island although Corsican forces were not completely subdued until the following year and sporadic outbreaks of rebellion continued .   The French invasion triggered the Corsican Crisis in British politics . Although they sent secret aid to the Corsicans , the British government chose not to act to prevent the island 's occupation . The leader of the Corsican Republic , Pasquale Paoli , went into exile in Britain where he remained until the French Revolution allowed him to return to Corsica . British troops subsequently intervened in Corsica between 1794 -- 1796 , where they created the Anglo-Corsican Kingdom , and in 1814 when they agreed the Treaty of Bastia . Following the Congress of Vienna control of the islands were returned to the restored French monarchs .

negative: Medieval Corsica The history of Corsica in the medieval period begins with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the invasions of various Germanic peoples in the fifth century AD , and ends with the complete subjection of the island to the authority of the Bank of San Giorgio in 1511 .

negative: History of Corsica That the history of Corsica has been influenced by its strategic position at the heart of the western Mediterranean and its maritime routes , only 12 km from Sardinia , 50 km from the Isle of Elba , 80 km from the coast of Tuscany and 200 km from the French port of Nice , was first proposed by the 19th-century German theorist , Friedrich Ratzel . To him is often attributed the description `` mountain in the sea '' . Regardless of whether he used that particular phrase the idea is expressed in his magnum opus , Anthropogeographie , which calls Corsica   and especially in his monograph on Corsica , La Corse , also published in 1899 .   The Anthropogeographie presents an overall view of Ratzel 's method of analysis but the 25-page monograph is perhaps the most relevant , applying the method in detail to Corsica . The `` sea '' part of the proverb refers to the easy accessibility by great powers to Corsica across the narrow waters from neighboring lands . Once they arrive the `` mountain '' provides a wall of defense against which invaders can make no easy headway . A central spine running north -- south right along its length , which makes travel from ( and communication between ) one side to the other difficult , isolates Corsicans even from themselves . This spine and strategic position go some way to explaining the island 's unique history .   At 8778 km2 , it is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean , after Sicily , Sardinia and Cyprus . Ratzel portrays a society never able either to be conquered or to rule itself but in the perpetual struggle for freedom and sovereignty producing `` numberless champions '' . On this last point Ratzel admits to an unbridled admiration for his friend and associate Ferdinand Gregorovius , an advocate of Corsican culture , and joins him in portraying Pasquale Paoli and Napoleon Bonaparte , as larger than life .   In 1762 , Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in his opus , The Social Contract , that Corsica would one day astonish Europe . This was written some seven years before Napoleon was born .

negative: Megachile corsica Megachile corsica is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae . It was described by Benoist in 1935 .

negative: Paleo-Corsican language The Paleo-Corsican language is an ancient extinct language spoken in Corsica and presumably in the northeastern part of Sardinia ( Gallura ) from the local Corsican populations during the Bronze Age and the Iron Age . The scanty evidence of this ancient language , which came mainly from toponymy , would indicate a type of Pre-Indo-European language , or according to other Indo-European , with Ligurian and Iberian affinity .   Antoine Peretti ranks as Ligurian the suffixes - asco , - elo / ello , - ate / ati , - inco , present in different Corsican names .

negative: Vasculaghju Vasculaghju is an archaeological site in Corsica . It is located in the commune of Sotta .   Category : Archaeological sites in Corsica