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1) Subject:Help with dialect description response
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Date: 20 Jan 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">"Berg, Frederick E Mr CIV USA TRADOC" <<a href="mailto:rick.berg1@us.army.mil">rick.berg1@us.army.mil</a>></span>
Subject:Help with dialect description response
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">Here's some input on describing Iraqi 3amiya/le7ja. I only spent a year in Iraq, and my fus-7a wasn't very good to start with.<br><br>1. Modified the pronunciation of MSA, especially for ق ظ ذ ث . E. g. "qif" becomes "aguf."<br>2. Dropped the case endings and restricted use of the dual.<br>3. Simplified the verb system, eliminating subjunctive and jussive.<br>4. Changed the ways of making a negative sentence and negating verbs; replaces "leissa" with "ma"/"mu".<br>5. Simplified the numbers and counting system.<br>6. More Farsi vocabulary than other dialects. <br>7. Substituted different words for many common MSA words.<br>8. The future tense is distinctive from MSA. <br>9. Distinctive possessive; "maly"/"maltak" instead of "-y" / "-uka".<br><br><br><br>Rick B.<br>California<br></span>
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