The Phonological System in Egyptian Arabic, The Consonant Sounds

The Phonological System in Egyptian Arabic : The Consonant Sounds

Introduction

Through an overwhelming exposure perpetuated through large scale use in mass media , literature , advertisement and other aspects of popular culture , the Egyptian variant of Arabic , commonly referred to as Misra is presently one of the most widely recognized variants of what is understood as Standard Arabic , a derivation of Classical Arabic Although it is still not considered to be an official language par say (despite strong nationalist movements to accord it such a status , its wide spread usage has rendered it as

an important subject of socio-linguistic study . Although the political and ethnological questions are never far from a discussion of Egyptian Arabic , this will use them only at a al level , and will primarily focus on the phonological developments of this particular form of the Arabic language . The other aspects will be used and evoked only in to define this phenomenon of phonological deviations from Standard Arabic as and when required . The spread of Islam over large areas of Asia and Africa , particularly between the 7th and 8th century AD to the onset of Renaissance in the European nations , has carried Arabic to lands far and wide , thus initiating processes of unique hybridizations and adaptations , through the process of contacts , acceptance of loan words and regional phonetic variations . As a result , Arabic presently is often considered by many critics not to be a coherent language as such , but rather a combination of a number of dialects and...