Author
Unknown,
Subject
SemantikaSemantics
Type
kitap
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Phaidra - Univerzitet u Beogradu
Record ID
o-1640
Date
2012-04-02 08:24:08.Haataz
Sample Text
This is an almost perfect description of the situation in Arabic (Ferguson's and other examples of this phenomenon are modern Greek, Haitian Creole French and Swiss German). An Arabic speaker will learn his regional colloquial language (Egyptian, Moroccan, Levantine Arabic) which may be a high-profile dialect (Cairo, Casablanca, Beirut Arabic) by whose standards all other dialects of a given region are considered backward and peasant. All these dialects have different vocabulary and pronunciation, but they all share a basic syntactic structure that is characterized by the absence of case endings, the structure of the subject-verb-object sentence, the loss of duality (except in very isolated cases) and a reduced number of verb conjugations. However, our hypothetical Arabic speaker will also, if he attends school and wants to be considered educated, have to learn (in school as a foreign language) modern standard Arabic or (to use the Arabic term) Fushu, which is practically identical in grammar to the Arabic of the Koran.
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