Ludovik Mifsud Tommasi
Ludovik Mifsud Tommasi (1796-1879), also known as Ludovico Mifsud Tommasi, was a Maltese priest and educator, and also author of short poems and short prayers.[1][2] He was from Cospicua, in southeastern Malta.[3] One of the major works of Mifsud Tommasi, L-Inni Imkaddsa (The Holy Hymns), a bilingual Latin-Maltese book, shows that his work focused on traditional aspects with the story concentrated with religious scenes. The book includes four of the five hymns of Thomas Aquinas.[4] Other important works are Stabat Mater Dolorosa; Christe Sanctorum decus Angelorum; and Magnae Deus Potentiae.
Mifsud Tommasi was a proponent of using the Latin alphabet instead of the Arabic script for Maltese.[5] This was a fraught issue at the time over how to incorporate sounds in Maltese, that could not be differentiated in the Latin alphabet; Mifsud Tommasi proposed representing the voiceless pharyngeal fricative with an h, although the eventually accepted form was ħ.
References
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- ^ Cassar Pullicino, Joseph (1982). "The priest who declined a bishopric".
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- ^ Borg, Albert; Caruana, Sandro; Vella, Alexandra (2014-02-03). Perspectives on Maltese Linguistics. Walter de Gruyter. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-05-006514-4.
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