dltwlf18 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5869 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Arabic (Written), Polish
| Message 1 of 2 05 November 2008 at 1:30pm | IP Logged |
I'm looking at possibly taking up persian sometime in the next year or so. Because of my situation I ended up learning MSA and Iraqi arabic pretty much alongside one another, when I first started studying Arabic. In some ways my Iraqi is probably better than my MSA even still.
I understand that Persian has an immense number of arabic loanwords (I've heard some people say 50% of all persian words come from Arabic). So I understand that a knowledge of any arabic would help with persian, but I want to know if my knowledge of Iraqi Arabic will provide me with a further advantage. I've heard that Iraqi Arabic has some turkish influence but I'd like to know what (if any) persian influence there is on Iraqi Arabic.
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William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French
| Message 2 of 2 26 December 2008 at 8:56am | IP Logged |
Well, Iraqi Arabic has the "ch" sound as in cheese. This is, I think, unusual among colloquial Arabic dialects, unknown in the Standard Arabic, but a common sound in Persian.
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