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In the 6th and 5th centuries BCE, northern Arab tribes emigrated and founded a kingdom centred around Petra, Jordan. These people (now named Nabataeans from the name of one of the tribes, Nabatu) spoke Nabataean Arabic , a dialect of the Arabic language.
The chart below explains how Wikipedia represents Modern Standard Arabic pronunciations with the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Wikipedia also has specific charts for Egyptian Arabic, Hejazi Arabic, Lebanese Arabic, and Tunisian Arabic.
(1) Early 9th century script used no dots or diacritic marks; [13] (2) and (3) in the 9th–10th century during the Abbasid dynasty, Abu al-Aswad's system used red dots with each arrangement or position indicating a different short vowel.
Because the Quran is written in Arabic and all Islamic terms are in Arabic, millions [83] of Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) study the language. Software and books with tapes are an important part of Arabic learning, as many of Arabic learners may live in places where there are no academic or Arabic language school classes available.
Braian Paiz says he gave Liam Payne cocaine to spend time together rather than for payment, and is one of five people charged in Payne's death.
Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people of Arab descent outside the Arab world when people of Arab descent speaking different dialects communicate to each other. As there is a prestige or standard dialect of vernacular Arabic, speakers of standard colloquial dialects code-switch between these particular dialects and MSA. [citation needed]
From January 2008 to May 2011, if you bought shares in companies when John R. Stafford joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -3.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a -7.3 percent return from the S&P 500.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Ann M. Livermore joined the board, and sold them when she left, you would have a -33.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.