| Pantesco | |
| Nativename: | pronounced as /[panˈtɪskʊ]/, (rare) pronounced as /[pantɪɖːʐaˈrɪskʊ]/[1] |
| States: | Italy |
| Ethnicity: | Sicilians (Panteschi) |
| Region: | Pantelleria |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Italic |
| Fam3: | Latino-Faliscan |
| Fam4: | Latin |
| Fam5: | Romance |
| Fam6: | Italo-Western |
| Fam7: | Italo-Dalmatian |
| Fam8: | Italo-Romance |
| Fam9: | Extreme Southern Italian |
| Fam10: | Sicilian |
| Isoexception: | dialect |
| Glotto: | pant1252 |
| Glottorefname: | Pantesco |
| Notice: | IPA |
Pantesco is the Sicilian dialect of the island of Pantelleria between Sicily and Tunisia. It is notable among Romance varieties for an unusually high degree of influence from Arabic, reflecting a variety close to Maltese. Arabic loanwords, mainly nouns, include words such as hurrìhi "nettle" < ħurrayq (Maltese ħurrieq), vartàsa "hornless (goat)" < farṭās, hèddi "calm wind" < hādiʔ, as well as many place names around the island, including the name Pantelleria itself.[2] In such loans, the glottal fricative h (unusual for a Romance dialect) is preserved as a reflex of Arabic laryngeals h/x/ħ and sometimes even q.[3]
Pantesco uses unstressed subject pronoun clitics to form durative aspect.[1]
A dialectal dictionary was published by Giovanni Tropea in 1988.[4]