• cloaker
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    01 year ago

    Still Arabic though? All dialects are still Arabic.

    • mohKohn
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      11 year ago

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

      • Lafuma300
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        21 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
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          21 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.