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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5242 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 1 of 3 25 January 2010 at 12:59pm | IP Logged |
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Are they similar enough that after learning MSA I can learn the dialects by just knowing the different pronunciation for same words, or are they completely different in terms of grammar and lexicon as well? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5605 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 3 25 January 2010 at 1:27pm | IP Logged |
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In general, the answer to your question is no. As far as I know, all dialects have some grammatical differences from MSA, and certainly they all have quite varied vocabularies. What dialect are you interested in? The answer to you question in terms of severity depends largely on that. The Arabic spoken in Yemen is much, much closer to MSA than than the Hassaniyya dialect, for example.
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6173 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 3 25 January 2010 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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This topic has been discussed many, many times. Do a search and you will find a lot of information.
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