• Lafuma300@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It isn’t. Mutual intelligibility is very high. There is something called lexical distance, and the lexical distance among Arabic dialects is negligible.

    • Diabolo96@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Say that to new learners that started with standard arabic . let’s take a car سيارة
      In algeria it’s طاكسي in Tunisia كرهبة in Egyptian عربية( the Egyptian one use an archaic word for car )

      Am native and yet still struggle understanding all these dialects.