The Modern Egyptian Dialect of Arabic: A Grammar With Exercises, Reading Lessions and Glossaries (Classic Reprint)

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This book aims only at teaching the modern spoken Arabic of Egypt, especially that of Cairo. For this reason it has been necessary to give the Arabic words in a trans literation, instead of using the native alphabet The Arabic script, even when fully vocalised, does not give the finer distinctions of the vowels; it is not only difficult but im possible to mark for instance the difference of the vowelsin C 1: (pronounced far/rah) from those of i (pronounced almost baled). In thus writing down the details of a popular speech it is almost impossible to avoid some differences of opinion; it is especially dificult also for English ears to catch the sounds of the more peculiar Semitic articulations such/ as a and C'

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