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A little jealous of Arabic speakers for that, ngl (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/linguistics_humor@sh.itjust.works

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it's pretty hard to generalize but it's kinda of like degrees of separation. you can have something like dialect A and B understand each other, and so do B and C, and C and D, but A and D would have difficulty.

imo Egyptian is very different from Iraqi, but they're likely to understand each other because Iraqi is similar to the Standard Arabic, and Egypt has exported their culture to the Arab world through theater, tv and music.