• mohKohn@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been given the impression that dialect for Arabic is sort of like calling French and Spanish dialects of Latin.

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      1 year ago

      It isn’t. Mutual intelligibility is very high. There is something called lexical distance, and the lexical distance among Arabic dialects is negligible.

      • Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Say that to new learners that started with standard arabic . let’s take a car سيارة
        In algeria it’s طاكسي in Tunisia كرهبة in Egyptian عربية( the Egyptian one use an archaic word for car )

        Am native and yet still struggle understanding all these dialects.