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donia
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Quote donia Replybullet Topic: Arabic dialect on your site!
    Posted: 13 April 2008 at 5:41am
Hi,
I find this site fantastic but excuse me I must be honest! The one who is talking in the tapes is not speaking arabic but lebanese or palestinian dialect which are only dialects that don't hase a lot to do with arabic! I  mean that should not be called arabic! It should be called by its name lebanese or palestinian dialect. The official standard arabic is one and only one! Dialects should never be called arabic, it's a shame if we do! You have to chahge the tapes!
 
Many thanks from a real arabian lady.
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Quote DemiPuppet Replybullet Posted: 13 April 2008 at 8:25am
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines "Arabic" as

...the prevailing speech of Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and parts of northern Africa.

It's a general term for several dialects.  The official Arabic language is referred to in scholarly circles as "Modern Standard Arabic" or "MSA".


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