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| Groatse Newbie United States Joined 4615 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes | Message 1 of 4 24 April 2012 at 12:23am | IP Logged |
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Greetings all.
I've been trying to find a frequency word list for MSA but have been quite unsuccessful. And to make the task even more difficult, I'd need it with diacritics. Anyone by chance happen to have a list of this kind or know of one lurking about in the interwebz? Sorry if I put this into the wrong section of the forum. This seemed most fitting. Cheers, Touko 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6659 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 2 of 4 24 April 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
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It sounds like you want a general word list for MSA. I can't help you there, but you might want to check out the book 'The Top 1,300 Words for Understanding Media Arabic' by Elisabeth Kendall.
Another somewhat related work is a set of three books entitled 'Access to Quranic Arabic' by Abdul Wahid Hamid. The book is much more than a word list, but its index contains a few word lists. One list is for words that occur more than 100 times in the Koran, and the others are for more than 50 and 25 times. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5188 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 4 24 April 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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Another book you could try is A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic: Core Vocabulary for Learners
I don't have it, but what I remember from seeing a copy is: It lists the first 5,000 MSA words from a variety of sources in frequency order. Each head word is vowelled. It also has a short (unvowelled) paragraph containing the word and an English translation of the paragraph. It's a nice book. Edited by Andrew C on 24 April 2012 at 7:14pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Groatse Newbie United States Joined 4615 days ago 4 posts - 6 votes | Message 4 of 4 25 April 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you Andrew C, that was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Or atleast it looks like the
kind of thing I was looking for. I ordered the book from bookdepository and we'll see what it's like. Elisabeth Kendall's book I already have and will be using it later on for work related stuff, but currently I'm looking to get my core 1000 or so in order to start wading through readers I have accumulated. Cheers 1 person has voted this message useful |
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