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  2. Egyptian Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Speakers of Egyptian Arabic generally call their vernacular 'Arabic' (عربى, [ˈʕɑrɑbi]) when juxtaposed with non-Arabic languages; "Colloquial Egyptian" (العاميه المصريه, [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]) or simply "Aamiyya" (عاميه, colloquial) when juxtaposed with Modern Standard Arabic and the Egyptian dialect (اللهجه المصريه, [elˈlæhɡæ l ...

  3. 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.

  4. Al-Kitaab series - Wikipedia

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    The first edition of the Al-Kitaab series included materials in both formal Modern Standard Arabic (also called Fusha) and Egyptian Arabic. [16] At the time, this was unusual, as most Arabic instructional texts taught only Fusha, or, less commonly, only a colloquial dialect. [16] The current third edition includes Fusha, Egyptian, and Levantine ...

  5. Varieties of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    عامية المثقفين ʿāmmiyyat al-muṯaqqafīn, 'colloquial of the cultured' (also called Educated Spoken Arabic, Formal Spoken Arabic, or Spoken MSA by other authors [28]): This is a vernacular dialect that has been heavily influenced by MSA, i.e. borrowed words from MSA (this is similar to the literary Romance languages, wherein ...

  6. Saʽidi Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Dialects include Middle and Upper Egyptian Arabic. [5] [6] Speakers of Egyptian Arabic do not always understand more conservative varieties of Ṣaʽīdi Arabic. [7] Ṣaʽīdi Arabic carries little prestige nationally, but it continues to be widely spoken in the South, and in the north by Southern migrants who have also adapted to Egyptian Arabic.

  7. Arabic AI could help open doors for other languages - AOL

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    Jais is an AI tool tailored to the world’s Arabic speakers, which its creators say could pave the way for large language models in other underrepresented languages.

  8. Yusuf al-Maghribi - Wikipedia

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    Yūsuf al-Maġribi (Arabic: يوسف المغربي) was a 17th-century traveler and lexicographer active in Cairo.He is the first author to treat Egyptian Arabic as a dialect distinct from Classical Arabic, compiling an Egyptian Arabic word list, the Raf` al-'iṣr `an kalām 'ahl miṣr (i.e. "apology of the Egyptian vernacular", literally "the lifting of the burden from the speech of the ...

  9. Arabic chat alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The frequent use of y and w to represent ى and و demonstrates the influence of English orthography on the romanization of Egyptian Arabic. Additionally, the letter qāf is usually pronounced as a glottal stop, like a hamza in Metropolitan (Cairene) Egyptian Arabic—unlike Standard Arabic in which it represents a voiceless uvular stop.