Re: Learning to Speak Arabic

Yusuf B Gursey wrote:

> Mike Wright wrote:
> 
>>Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>>
> [...]
>>>since /j/ regularly becomes [g], even in the egyptian recitation of MSA
>>>you just tell that   <j> is pronounced [g].
>>>[...]
>>
>>That's what was done at DLI. There's no conflict, since Egyptian Arabic
>>has no [j], even, as Yusuf says, in MSA.
> 
> in the egyptian register of MSA for radio broadcasts etc. not for
> Qur'an recitation.

That's very interesting.

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Mike Wright
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