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 ABSTRACT ifferent dialects of Arabic language have been an Dattraction of students of linguistics. Many studies have 1 Ali Akbar.P been done in this regard. Arabic language is one of the fastest growing languages in the world. It is the mother of 420 million in people 1 Research scholar, across the world. And it is the of 23 countries spread Department of Arabic, over Asia and . Arabic has gained the status of world languages Farook College, recognized by the UN. The economic significance of the region where Calicut, Kerala, Arabic is being spoken makes the language more acceptable in the India world political and economical arena. The geopolitical significance of the region and its language cannot be ignored by the economic super powers and political stakeholders.

KEY WORDS: Arabic, , Moroccan, Egyptian, Gulf, Kabael, world economy, super powers

INTRODUCTION DISCUSSION The importance of Arabic language has been Within the non- varieties, the largest multiplied with the emergence of globalization process in difference is between the non-Egyptian North African the nineties of the last century thank to the oil reservoirs dialects and the others. in particular is in the region, because petrol plays an important role in nearly incomprehensible to Arabic speakers east of . propelling world economy and politics. As we said above They employ the (MSA) to the native speakers of Arabic language have been spread converse each other. It is the of the region. across Asia and Africa. And there are many dialects and News papers and books are published in the MSA. slangs in the language as any other language in the world DIALECT GROUPS however minor they are. The way of speaking the language The dialect groups of Arabic language can be and its style differ from person to person. The case of briefed as follows: Arabic speakers is more complicated and obvious in this , spoken by around 80 million in regard. Even an Arabic native speaker from the Gulf region . It is one of the most understood , may not follow a native speaker of Arabic from Morocco. due in large part to the widespread distribution of Egyptian Egyptian slang is very familiar because of the popular films and television shows throughout the Arabic speaking cinema industry of Egypt. The reason of this phenomenon world. is mainly its mixing with previously spoken languages like includes Moroccan Arabic, Kabael languages in non-Egypt African countries such as , Saharan Arabic, , and to a Morocco, Algeria, and . In the case of Egypt more particular extent, , and is spoken by previously spoken Coptic language played the role. around 75 million North Africans in Morocco, Western , Algeria, Tunisia and Libya ; it is often difficult for speakers of Middle Eastern Arabic varieties to understand. www.epratrust.com Vol - 3, Issue- 9, September 2015 81 EPRA International Journal of Economic and Business Review The Berber influence in these dialects varies in degree. visited the local mosque, the Hui running the mosque includes North Levantine was from Shandong, and he was a descendant of Muslims Arabic, , and . It is from the city of Medina. He spoke both Arabic and Chinese, spoken by almost 35 million people in , , and could read Arabic as well. In Tianjin, Hui could speak , Palestine, , and Turkey. an old, archaic form of Arabic, when they met Arab Muslims is spoken by 30 million people in recent times; it was found out that and in and some parts of southern Egypt. Sudanese Modern Arabic were very different, so Modern Arabic is Arabic is quite distinct from the dialect of its neighbour to now being taught to Hui. the north; rather, the Sudanese have a dialect similar to Samaritan Arabic - spoken by only several the Hijazi dialect. hundred in the Nablus region Iraqi Arabic, spoken by about 29 million people Andalusi Arabic, spoken in until 15th in , eastern Syria and south-western century, now extinct. (Khuzestan).Gulf Arabic, spoken by around 22 million SOUNDS people, predominantly in the , , The “colloquial” spoken varieties of Arabic are , eastern , , and . Also learned at home and constitute the native languages of spoken in Iran’s Bushehr and Hormozgan provinces. Arabic speakers. “Formal” Literary Arabic (usually spoken in Yemen and southern specifically Modern Standard Arabic) is learned at school; Saudi Arabia by 25 million people. Similar to Gulf Arabic. although many speakers have a native-like command of , spoken by around 10 million people, mainly the language, it is technically not the native language of spoken in , center and northern part of Saudi any speakers. Both varieties can be both written and Arabia.Hejazi Arabic (7 million speakers), spoken in Hejaz, spoken, although the colloquial varieties are rarely written western Saudi ArabiaNorth Mesopotamian Arabic, spoken down, and the formal variety is spoken mostly in formal by around 7 million people in northern Iraq, north-western circumstances, e.., in radio broadcasts, formal lectures, Iran, northern Syria and southern Turkey. parliamentary discussions, and to some extent between (2.8 million speakers), spoken speakers of different colloquial varieties. Even when the in , , some parts of northern is spoken, however, it is normally only , southern Morocco and south-western Algeria. spoken in its pure form when reading a prepared text Bahrani Arabic (1,000,000+ speakers), spoken by Bahrani out loud. When speaking extemporaneously (i.e. making Shia in Bahrain, Qatif, and Al Ahsa, where it exhibits some up the language on the spot, as in a normal discussion differences from Bahraini Arabic and Gulf Arabic. It is among people), speakers tend to deviate somewhat from also spoken to a lesser extent in Oman. the strict literary language in the direction of the colloquial JUDEO-ARABIC DIALECTS varieties. In fact, there is a continuous range of “in-between” , spoken in , spoken varieties: from nearly pure Modern Standard and , is highly endangered Arabic (MSA), to a form that still uses MSA grammar and Maltese, spoken on the Mediterranean island of vocabulary but with significant colloquial influence, to a , is the only one to have established itself as a fully form of the colloquial language that imports a number of separate language, with independent literary norms. In words and grammatical constructions in MSA, to a form the course of its history the language has adopted that is close to pure colloquial but with the “rough edges” numerous , phonetic and phonological features, (the most noticeably “vulgar” or non-Classical aspects) and even some grammatical patterns, from Italian, Sicilian, smoothed out, to pure colloquial. The particular variant and English. It is also the only Semitic tongue written in (or register) used depends on the social class and the script. Siculo Arabic, spoken on , South education level of the speakers involved, and the level of until 14th century, developed into . formality of the speech situation. Often it will vary within The Muslim Hui people in China had knowledge a single encounter, e.g., moving from nearly pure MSA to a of archaic forms of Arabic. The Hui of Yunnan (Burmaese more in the process of a radio interview, called them Panthays) were reported to be fluent in Arabic. as the interviewee becomes more comfortable with the During the Panthay Rebellion, Arabic replaced Chinese as interviewer. This type of variation is characteristic of the official language of the rebel kingdom. In 1844 “The Chinese that exists throughout the Arabic-speaking world. repository, Volume 13” was published, including an account of an Englishman who stayed in Ningbo in China. There www.epratrust.com Vol - 3, Issue- 9, September 2015 82 e-ISSN : 2347 - 9671, p- ISSN : 2349 - 0187 Ali Akbar.P LITERARY ARABIC CONCLUSION Although Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is a Studying the dialects of Arabic language is an unitary language, its pronunciation varies somewhat from interesting subject. A whole book running to volumes might country to country and from region to region within a be tip of iceberg. No other language can have such a variety country. The variation in individual “accents” of MSA of dialects and slangs. Even some of them can be speakers tends to mirror corresponding variations in the considered as an independent language. However, the colloquial speech of the speakers in , but with the MSA makes them connect and grow. distinguishing characteristics moderated somewhat. Note BIBLIOGRAPHY that it is important in descriptions of “Arabic” 1. History of by Philip . Hitti to distinguish between pronunciation of a given colloquial 2. History of by Karl Brockelmann (spoken) dialect and the pronunciation of MSA by these 3. Tarikh aadaab el lughat el Arabiya by George Zaidan same speakers. Although they are related, they are not 4. Tarikh adab al arabi by Ahmed Hasan Zayat the same.

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