i never knew this was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypriot_Arabic …
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Replying to @halaljew
I guess Cypriot Arabic absorbed enough words from Greek that p has become a regular phoneme in the language?pic.twitter.com/kzrOtj7wRF
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If you don’t know IPA: -X represents the خ sound -ʕ is ع -ʃ is ش -tʃ is the “ch” sound in “check” -ð is the “th” sound
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Replying to @halaljew
so now you know how to read that table at the bottom which will help you read the text sample
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Actually, let’s make this more direct. In this particular text sample: -X is خ -C is ֵع -Ċ is “ch” as in “check” -δ is the “th” sound
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bc like the text at the bottom says, the sample follows IPA _except_ for those instances that i just listed above
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also if you were curious ʒ is the french j sound as in “j’aime” same sound as the “s” in “measure” and also how some Levantines pronounce ج
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ANYWAYS back to cypriot arabic, it seems super different from most other varieties of arabic and idk it’s really cool imo
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Reminds me of Maltese, which I thought was the only native European Semitic language. Tho whether Cyprus is Europe or Asia is... disputed
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