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Throughout Wikipedia, the pronunciation of words is indicated by means of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The following tables list the IPA symbols used for Lebanese Arabic words and pronunciations. Please note that several of these symbols are used in ways that are specific to Wikipedia and differ from those used by dictionaries.
The standard pronunciation of ج in MSA varies regionally, most prominently in the Arabian Peninsula, parts of the Levant, Iraq, north-central Algeria, and parts of Egypt, it is also considered as the predominant pronunciation of Literary Arabic outside the Arab world and the pronunciation mostly used in Arabic loanwords across other languages ...
Lebanon, [c] officially the Republic of Lebanon, [d] is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, [13] it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west; Cyprus lies a short distance from the coastline.
George Nader (businessman) (born 1959), Lebanese-American businessman, lobbyist, and convicted sex offender Habib Nasib Nader (born 1979), British actor Hassan Nader (born 1965), Moroccan football player
The rural language is the one that changes most, and as in every old sedentary area, the changes are gradual, with more marked forms in extremal or isolated areas (e.g. general shift of /k/ to in rural Palestinian, or conservation of the diphthongs /aj/ and /aw/ in the Lebanese mountains).
Palestinian dialects differ from Western Syrian as far as short stressed /i/ and /u/ are concerned: in Palestinian they keep a more or less open [ɪ] and [ʊ] pronunciation, and are not neutralised to [ə] as in Syrian. The Lebanese and Syrian dialects are more prone to imāla of /aː/ than the Palestinian dialects are. For instance شتا ...
Romanization is often termed "transliteration", but this is not technically correct. [citation needed] Transliteration is the direct representation of foreign letters using Latin symbols, while most systems for romanizing Arabic are actually transcription systems, which represent the sound of the language, since short vowels and geminate consonants, for example, does not usually appear in ...
Example of common French loanwords in Lebanese [23] French original word French pronunciation French meaning Lebanese meaning Lebanese abat-jour /a.ba.ʒuʁ/ lampshade /ɑ.bɑ.ʒuɾ/ أباجور antenne /ɑ̃.tɛn/ antenna /ɑn.tˤen/ baffle /bafl/ speaker /bɑfl/ bonjour /bɔ̃.ʒuʁ/ good morning /bon.ʒuɾ/ بونجور ...