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A little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, ngl (lemmy.world)
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[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of north African Arabic dialect words are straight up french words transliterated to Arabic. That's in addition to the lebanese dialect having some, and also many Lebanese people knowing French as a secondary language

Also hello buddy!