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  2. Egyptian Arabic phonology - Wikipedia

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    Unlike in most Arabic dialects, Egyptian Arabic has many words that logically begin with a vowel (e.g. /ana/ 'I'), in addition to words that logically begin with a glottal stop (e.g. /ʔawi/ 'very', from Classical /qawij(j)/ 'strong'). When pronounced in isolation, both types of words will be sounded with an initial glottal stop.

  3. Help:IPA/Arabic - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Sibawayh - Wikipedia

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    Sibawayh was the first to produce a comprehensive encyclopedic Arabic grammar, in which he sets down the principles rules of grammar, the grammatical categories with countless examples taken from Arabic sayings, verse and poetry, as transmitted by Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, his master and the famous author of the first Arabic dictionary ...

  5. Arabic phonology - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Brushing teeth Afrikaans: nom, gomf gloeg gloeg gloeg Albanian: ham, kërr, krrëk ham-ham, njam-njam llup, gllup välmos-fësh, fër-fër Arabic: hum-hum humm شرب (sharib) Azerbaijani: nəm nəm qurt qurt fıç fıç Basque: kosk, hozk mauka mauka zurrut klik Batak: nyaum nyaum guk Bengali

  7. Voiced pharyngeal fricative - Wikipedia

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    Meaning Notes Abaza: гӀапынхъамыз / g ' apynkh"amyz [ʕaːpənqaːməz] 'March' Arabic: اَلْـعَـرَبِيَّةُ / al-ʽarabiyya [alʕaraˈbijːa] 'Arabic' See Arabic phonology: Assyrian: Eastern: ܬܪܥܐ / täroa [tʌrʕɑ] 'door' The majority of the speakers will pronounce the word as [tʌrɑ]. Western [tʌrʕɔ] Avar ...

  8. Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of تَشْكِيل tashkīl is 'variation'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to read or foreign learners.

  9. Ḏāl - Wikipedia

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    The main pronunciations of written ذ in Arabic dialects. Ḏāl (ذ, also transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents /ð/.