This new edition, updated and with additional exercises, equips those who work, travel, and study in Arab countries with an educated form of spoken Arabic that functions flexibly in the face of various regional colloquial variants in the Arab world. Because the Arabic language has a number of very d
Modern Arabic: Structures, Functions, and Varieties (Georgetown Classics in Arabic Language and Linguistics)
โ Scribed by Clive, Holes
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 219
- Edition
- Revised
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
The revised and updated edition of Modern Arabic takes into account research published in several areas of Arabic linguistics since the first edition in 1995. It includes more extensive comment on the North African Arabic vocabulary of Modern Standard Arabic, more information about "mixed" varieties of written Arabic that are not in MSA (especially in Egypt), updated references, explanations, and adds many new examples. Students of the Arabic language will find Modern Arabic without peer--as will those general linguists who are interested in discovering how Arabic compares structurally and sociolinguistically with European languages.
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