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    Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language...
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    to 32 varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This...
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    Mesopotamian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بلاد ما بين النهرين) or Iraqi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العراقية) is a group of varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian...
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    Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Modern Written Arabic (MWA) is the variety of standardized, literary Arabic that developed in the Arab world in the late...
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    Arabic or Andalusian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العربية الأندلسية, romanized: al-lahja l-ʿarabiyya l-ʾandalusiyya) was a variety or varieties of Arabic spoken...
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    intelligibility between any two varieties largely depending on the distance between them. Similar to other Arabic varieties, Gulf Arabic varieties are not completely...
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    ways unique from other varieties of Arabic. Due to multilingualism and pervasive diglossia among Lebanese people (a majority of the Lebanese people are...
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    (Arabic: عامية سودانية [ˈʕaːmmijja suːˈdaːnijja]) or locally as Common Sudanese (Arabic: دارجى [ˈdaːriɟi]) refers to the various related varieties of Arabic...
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  • l-ʿarabiyya ṣ-ṣiqilliyya) is the term used for varieties of Arabic that were spoken in the Emirate of Sicily (which included Malta) from the 9th century...
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    grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have largely the same grammar; colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic can vary...
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    ongoing Islamization and Arabization of the country, multiple Arabic varieties, one of which is Egyptian Arabic, slowly supplanted spoken Coptic. Local...
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  • Hilalian Arabic. The Pre-Hilalian varieties were largely bedouinized by the Hilalian migrations in the 11th century, producing hybrid varieties that combined...
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    Arabic levelled the /a/ allomorph: Islam portal Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Varieties of Arabic Ancient North Arabian Quranic Arabic Corpus Arabic–English...
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    in 1945. Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world...
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    million speakers, Levantine is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two prestige varieties of spoken Arabic comprehensible all over the Arab world. Levantine is...
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    Chadian Arabic (Arabic: لهجة تشادية), also known as Shuwa Arabic, Western Sudanic Arabic, or West Sudanic Arabic (WSA), is a variety of Arabic and the...
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    Diglossia (redirect from High variety)
    alongside other varieties of Arabic (L); and China, where Standard Chinese (H) is used as the official, literary standard and local varieties of Chinese (L)...
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    Northwest Arabian Arabic varieties of the south, and Najdi Arabic and Shawi Arabic varieties of the north. Jordanian Arabic varieties are Semitic. They...
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  • Proto-Arabic is the name given to the hypothetical reconstructed ancestor of all the varieties of Arabic attested since the 9th century BC. There are two...
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  • Mashriqi Arabic, or Mashriqi ʿAmmiya, encompasses the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mashriq, including the countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine,...
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    Yemeni Arabic (Arabic: لهجة يمنية, romanized: Lahja Yamaniyyah) is a cluster of varieties of Arabic spoken in Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is...
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  • contemporary spoken Arabic language is more properly described as a continuum of varieties. This article deals primarily with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which...
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    Emirati Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الإماراتية, romanized: al-Lahjah al-Imārātīyah) refers to a group of Arabic dialectal varieties spoken by the Emiratis native...
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    Central Asian Arabic or Jugari Arabic (in Arabic: العربية الآسيوية الوسطى) refers to a set of four closely-related varieties of Arabic currently facing...
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  • Libyan Arabic (Arabic: ليبي, romanized: Lībī), also called Sulaimitian Arabic by scholars, is a variety of Arabic spoken in Libya, and neighboring countries...
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    Ṣaʽīdi Arabic (autonym: صعيدى [sˤɑˈʕiːdi], Egyptian Arabic: [sˤeˈʕiːdi]), or Upper Egyptian Arabic, is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Upper Egyptians...
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  • Arabic dialect continuum and is mostly intelligible with the Tunisian and Moroccan dialects. Like other varieties of Maghrebi Arabic, Algerian Arabic...
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    Omani Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة العمانية, romanized: al-Lahjah al-ʻUmānīyah; also known as Omani Hadari Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Al Hajar...
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  • particular contact with speakers of other languages and other Arabic varieties. Kuwaiti Arabic has three short vowels /a i u/ and five long vowels /a: e:...
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  • The Arabic language family is divided into several categories which are: Old Arabic, the literary varieties, and the modern vernaculars. The genealogical...
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