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sean jayasekara
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Arabic speakers
January 16, 2004 - 11:45 AM
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Hey,
I was looking through the "First Arabic Post" discussion and I think its really cool that you can write in Arabic on TIG.
The problem is (as someone else said) not everyone (myself included) can understand Arabic - However I would love to learn the language (not sure which version though)!!
I was speaking to Yara and she was teaching me some words and its amazing how some of the slang can differ,
so: I decided I would put up this post and Arabic speaking people can teach me and others words from their area.
What do you think? Can you help me out??
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Re: Arabic speakers
January 16, 2004 - 01:22 AM
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Hi Sean,
My name is Sean=Ana esmi Sean, in Arabic
Ana=me
Enta=you(male singular)
Enti=You (female singular)
Entom=you (plural)
Ehna=we
homma=they
howwa=he
heyya=she
esm=name
esmi=my name
esmak=your name (male singular)
esmek= your name (female singular)
esmokom= your name (plural)
esmena=our name
esmo=his name
esmaha=her name
esmohom=their name
Good bye=ma'assalama!
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sean jayasekara
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January 16, 2004 - 02:06 AM
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Nice one guys,
With all the different dialects, do you think that the name of the languge (Arabic) will cease to exist one day soon and the languages wil be defined Egyptian, Lebanese, Tunisian etc like how Latin did?
Anyway keep up the good teachings!!
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January 16, 2004 - 02:59 AM
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Hi Sean,
I don't see that dialects would be separate languages as long as classic Arabic is used in books, newspapers, TV News, and official matters, and most important: The language of the Qur'an,which is the holy book of Islam.
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January 16, 2004 - 04:06 AM
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ezzayak,ezzayek!  wow guys ! arabic sure is cool! arabic is like serbo-croatian with it's dialects (croatian,serbian,bosnian)the only difference is that all these dialects have become languages in 1991-93 when yugoslavia was breaking up! keep telling words in arabic, i also wanna learn some! 
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Re: Arabic speakers
January 16, 2004 - 12:18 PM
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I love you : ana bahebak .( to a guy) , ana bahebek ( to a girl)
N.B. this is the most important word ( just kiding)
peace : salam
Hi is : salamo Alikom
what words do you want to know :
Cool : is eshta lool , this is slang Egyptian youth language .
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January 16, 2004 - 12:36 PM
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she might know arabic, asking bout slang, eh.
akhbarak ay? how are you?
kaifa haluka, in formal arabic
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Arabic help
January 16, 2004 - 12:44 PM
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Hi sean,
asslema (Tunisian slang) : Marhaba (Formal Arabic ) = Hi
That's the first thing to learn.
I'm really happy there's TIG members who are intersted in learning arabic. Thank you for such interest.
But maybe you'll have some difficulty with arabic speakers on TIG because we have different dialects.
language= lougha (Arabic)
Good night = Tosbeh ala khir (h is pronouced differently and kh is also a letter that doesn't exist in English and other languages.
Cheers,
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January 16, 2004 - 12:53 PM
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Hi Sean,
Very nice idea for a discussion ,so as I was telling you:
EZZAYAK(for a man) and EZZAYEK (for a woman) means how are you in the Egyptian slang..
and in many arabic slangs you can say it: KEFAK
And there's also the word VERY:
In Egyptian it's AWI or GEDAN
In Tunisian BARSHA
and in moroccan it's another word that I can't really remember...
And the question"WHAT"S YOUR NEWS":
In Egyptian EIH AKHBARAK
in other arabic slangs it's SHOO AKHBARAK
Actually,all of these slangs are a bit different from the classic arabic,that's why Omar it was a bit weird when people hear you talking in classic arabic,it just became a bit strange according to our current slangs..
Actually,the amazing thing that when I was in Morocco I couldn't understand a single word from their dialect,it's so surprizing even though we're all arabic speakers and in Tunisia also they were really surprized whenever anyone speaks to me I was asking them to slow down a bit so I can understand,but they've got a loevly dialect by the way..
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January 17, 2004 - 07:21 AM
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matic...ezzayak .... elhamdollah koiesa (said by a female speaker) means (Communicative Translation: I am fine)(Word-For-Word Translation: I am fine thank Allah(God)).
One feature of Arabic language is that there are linguistic morphemses that mark gender, plurality as well as dual, which is not in English. For Example:
modares... male teacher
modaresa.. female teacher
modaresaan.. two male teachers
modaresataan.. two female teachers
modareseen... more than two male teachers
modaresaat... more than two female teachers
I made a notbook to write down the other Arabic Dialects, interesting discussion, keep it up. But guys, why do not type also in Arabic, just for the TIGers to get used how Arabic Letters look like, unfortunately, my pc cannot type in Arabic.
So today`s lesson
*wahashteeny... I missed you (for a female.)
*wahashteny... I missed you (for a male.)
*wahastoony... I missed you (for a group of people.)
Salamo Alikom,
Injy
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Re: Arabic speakers
January 17, 2004 - 08:23 AM
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Alef: (A) أ
ب: Ba' (B)
Ta'(T)very slight:ت
ث:Tha'(for Thick)
ج jim (for Jungle)
Hha'(Produced from within your pharynx):ح
Kha'(For Ruud "G"ulitt)خ
Dal(D):د
Thal(for The):ذ
Ra'(r):ر
Zein(Z):ز
س:Seen(S)
ش:Sheen(Sh)
صSSad Like S but with "encircling" your mouth)
DDadd (Like D but with encircling your mouth):ض
TTa'(Like T but with encircling your mouth):ط
ThthaLike letter Thal, but with encircling your mouth) ظ
ع:'Ain(Most difficult Arabic letter; it's not A, not h, but it is produced when you make a profound inner voice from your pharynx)
غ(Ghein)Pronounced just as the French people pronounce the letter R.
ف:Fa'(F)
ق:Qaf(Like K but with a resonance from the top of your mouth)
ك:Kaf(K)
ل:lam(L)
م:Meem(M)
ن:Noon(N)
Ha'(H):ه
Waw (both O,OO and W):و
ي:Ya'(both "ee" and "Y"
If Arabic letter do not appear, you can download them from www.downloads.com, I think they've got something like that.
Best regards
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January 30, 2004 - 11:07 AM
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Hello , I would really love to learn Arabic.. Most of my knowledge of Arabic is based on textbooks , but id really love to practice with some real Arabic speakers! Its really nice of you to share your language, and im benifitting from this forum. If anyone is interested in helping me learn Arabic , even a few more words if you dont have a lot of time, that would be really nice.
Also, I downloaded the Arabic font, but really i dont know how it works.. it kind of works in Microsoft word .. but only goes from left to right and i cant get any program to work in this forum. Please help if possible.
Thanks
Bernadette
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