Arabic-L:PEDA:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion

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Date: 06 Jun 2006
From:NKaloupek at compuserve.com
Subject:Dialect Materials in Script Discussion

I would agree with Martha about the value of Arabic script, even in  
learning a dialect. In my experience, I had studied MSA for a year  
before studying Jordanian Arabic in a program that used  
transliteration, and it was frustrating to me to see a quotation mark  
for a hamza (like "wa'if" for "stop") and not to know whether it was  
really supposed to be a hamza or a qof. If I had had the words  
written more or less correctly in Arabic script I could easily have  
learned them correctly and yet pronounced the qof as a hamza in the  
Jordanian dialect - but then modified that pronunciation  for the   
Gulf dialect that I later learned.

Neal Kaloupek

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