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Colloquials of Arabic Posted by aziza on Jun 13, 2010
In one of my earliest posts I discussed the different varieties of Arabic and explained that there are two main varieties Standard Arabic (فصحى), i.e. the written variety which is sometimes spoken in reading the news or religious speeches, etc; and colloquial Arabic (عامية) which is the spoken dialect. In this post, I discuss colloquial…