Re: Trying Spanish Again


Yusuf B Gursey kirjoitti:

Augustus SFX van Dusen wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:07:50 +0200, Ruud Harmsen wrote:

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:00:36 GMT: Augustus SFX van Dusen <ASFXvD@xxxxxxxxx>:
in sci.lang:

There is no specific Arabic
language. From what I have read the Arabic language that people speak
in Egypt is different from the Arabic they speak in Iraq. The Arabic
they speak in Jordan is different from the Arabic they speak in etc...
And then, the Arabic in major newspapers and news casts is not everyday
spoken Arabic.

I wonder how different they are? Are they mutually inteligible without
any great efforts?

I don't know much about, but Egyptian Arabic for example has its own
words, but also tenses and other grammatical phonomena that MSA (Modern
Standard Arabic) does not have.

In the same league as, say, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian?

Probably more distant. Depends on how far away you are. Morrocan is said
to be very different. Maltese for example doesn't even sound like Arabic,
but more like a mix of Albanian and Italian of something.

Does this mean that, say, a Moroccan speaker (educated, but not
necessarily with a college degree) would have difficulties in a place like

basically no. arabs usually are able to communicate with each in some
common register of arabic.

there would be difficulties in things like local foodstufs, and new
technological terms, and some differences like between british and
american usage between n. africa in general and the arab east.

How does Arabic copy with new technological terms? I recall reading in
Versteegh that it is basically purist enough, but I reckon this applies
only to polished standard language. Am I correct to think that
colloquial dialects must be heavily influenced by Western languages
such as English and (in Maghreb and Lebanon at least) French?

.

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