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khaleeji dialect (arabic) mainly kuwait dialect and language

Gulf Arabic is the language of the people , so doesn 't it make sense to teach what is actually being spoken outside the doors of the school ? What is actually happening is that a barrier in communication is being put up between the `commoner ' and the `prosperous ' citizens The differences in semantics , phonics , and linguistic taxonomy promote this issue

MSA is characterized by a complicated system of conjugations that change the case of words which are composed of three consonants ex S-L-M . formal Arabic shows this

practice to a larger extent

than any other language . of these case markings are imposed in the dialects . Basic to all Semitic languages is using prefixes , infixes , and suffices

Two kinds of syllables , phrases are an exception , they begin with the definite article , ends in a vowel , and the following word is the definite article . At this junction the first vowel is elided and the consonant closes the final syllable of the word ex . baytu-l mudir- house (of ) the director becomes baytul mudir . A final long vowel in the last syllable is not frazzled all of which is not

evident in dialects where the vowel is shortened ex . K : Taa-bun , book kaa-ti-bun , writer ka-at-bu , they wrote , and ka-tabt , I wrote

Examples of essential travel phrases (notice the syntax

Where is my room ? Ayna gurfati (ay-na gu-r-fa-ti

Where is the beach ? Ayna s-sati (ay-na s-sa-ti

Where is the bar ? Ayna l-bar (ay-na l-bar

Don 't touch me there (male ) La talmasni huna (la tal ma-sni hu-na (female ) La talmasini huna (la tal ma-si-ni-hu-na There are several words and phrases that are have different allophones for male and female , here are a few examples

English Arabic Khaleeji

your add ka add ki

cold barid baridah

min fadlak min fadik

small sagheer sagheeerah

student talib taliba

tourist...

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