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Both of these words are derived from */ʃaːjila/; /ʃeːla/ is the phonologically regular outcome, while /ʃajla/ is an analogical reformation based on the corresponding participial form /CaCCa/ of other verbs of the same class. Egyptian Arabic maintains in all positions the early post-Classical distinctions between short /i/ and /u/.
The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.
For example, لون ('color') is generally pronounced /loːn/ in Mashriqi dialects but /luːn/ in most Maghrebi Arabic. The long mid vowels can be used in Modern Standard Arabic in dialectal words or in some stable loanwords or foreign names, [16] as in روما /ˈroːma/ ('Rome') and شيك /ˈʃeːk/ ('cheque').
Khuzdul features a CV(C(C)) syllable structure. Words that begin with a vowel or diphthong have a glottal stop at the beginning to fill the place of an initial consonant. [1] Words can not start with a consonant cluster, but these are found in medial or final positions in a word. [1]
Arabic has a nonconcatenative "root-and-pattern" morphology: A root consists of a set of bare consonants (usually three), which are fitted into a discontinuous pattern to form words. For example, the word for 'I wrote' is constructed by combining the root k-t-b 'write' with the pattern -a-a-tu 'I Xed' to form katabtu 'I wrote'.
Algerian Arabic (Arabic: الدارجة الجزائرية, romanized: ad-Dārja al-Jazairia), natively known as Dziria, Darja or Derja, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria. It belongs to the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and is mostly intelligible with the Tunisian and Moroccan dialects. [ 2 ]
Abd (Arabic) Abu Turab; Adl; After Saturday comes Sunday; Ahl al-Bayt; Ajam; Al-Farooq (title) Al-Insān al-Kāmil; Al-Quds (disambiguation) Al-Wakil; Alcalde; Alhamdulillah; Alids; Aljama; Allahu akbar; Allahumma; Allamah; Amanah (administrative division) Arabic compound; Arabic definite article; Arabic diacritics; Arabic language influence on ...
Examples would be مانجو mangō 'mango fruit/tree' and كوري kōrī 'Korean'. As for the Arabic orthography used, word-initial glottal stops or hamza (i.e. the ا vs. أ vs. إ distinction) are not written either in the Arabic of the entries or in the