Arabic-L:LING:Moroccan jiim/giim

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Date: 25 May 2000
From: Andrew Freeman <andyf at umich.edu>
Subject: Moroccan jiim/giim

Hi,

  In Moroccan Arabic which has both the /zh/ pronunciation in words like
/zharida/ == newspaper and /zham9/ == mosque it also has the /g/
pronunciation.  Most noticeably in the common word fgor "sit", i.e.
/gles/. In Morocco, when dialect is written using Arabic-based script the
/g/ is written as a kaaf with a solid line over it, parallel to the top
line of the kaaf.

andy

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