Watching the world cup on Univision - it really bothers me that Algeria is ‘Argelia’ in Spanish. Who screwed this up, language nerds?
@mikewasson @geeoharee there was never a dialect of Arabic where the definite article was ‘ar-‘, as best I know.
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@Pinboard@geeoharee it could be assimilation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_and_moon_letters … what I'm uncertain of is pron. of ﺝ, but could be due to .es, not .ar -
@mikewasson@geeoharee it’s not an assimilation. That would be ‘ajj’ or ‘agg’. - Show replies
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