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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
BATR must be high-quality to allow writing the qureaan or Arabic poetry exactly. BATR should be highly phonetic in the sense that a person with no knowledge of Arabic should be able to read and pronounce the Arabic text with "reasonable" accuracy. When the principles of BATR are explained, this person should be able to approximate the sound of ...
The basic transcription from Arabic to Roman letters is found below. The basic transcription does not carry enough information to accurately write or pronounce the original Arabic script. For example, it does not differentiate between certain pairs of similar letters (e.g. س sīn vs. ص ṣād), or between long and short vowels. It does ...
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 ...
Miṣr: Modern Standard Arabic/Classical Arabic, pause (الوقف al-waqf); preferred Miṣru: Modern Standard Arabic/Classical Arabic, nominative case, avoided. Maṣr: Egyptian Arabic; it is not preferred to transliterate dialects in Arabic romanization, because they were only designed for literary Arabic pronunciation.
a widespread pronunciation of /q/ as (the Druze, however, retain the uvular ). A strong tendency to pronounce long /aː/ as (imala) in a front phonemic context or (tafkhim) in a back phonemic context. This tendency is stronger as one goes northward.
As well as those characteristics, Tunisian Arabic is also known for differently pronouncing words according to their orthography and position within a text. [11] [12] This phenomenon is known as pronunciation simplification [13] and has four rules: [iː] and [ɪ], at the end of a word, are pronounced [i] and [uː]. Also, [u] is pronounced [u ...
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