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Engrish

3an8arisi (Arabic English)

by jirukun on Aug.29, 2006, under 3arabi, Engrish, Languages

What in darnation is threeaneightarisi? :?

Before I answer this question I would like to explain a few things, starting with another question.

  • What is a language?

“A language is a system of signals, such as voice sounds, gestures or written symbols that encode or decode information”

Examples:

  1. English
  2. Italian
  3. Russian
  4. Japanese
  5. Spanish
  6. German
  7. Tagaloog
  8. Arabic
  9. …etc ..

They say there are 105 official languages in this world, and not counting the dialects and sub-dialects in each language [did you know that Bulgarian is the only language in the world that doesn't have a dialect?!]

So what’s 3angarisi?

I’m getting to it don’t rush me…

Ok, we explained what is a language, and hinted that there are dialects in each language, so the next logical question is

  • What is a dialect?

A dialect is the modification of the sound/grammar of one or more words, or the use of a non standard/existant word to replace an existing word in the original language.

This is very easly seen in

Arabic (Saudi, Kuwaity, Emaraty, Bahreni, Masri, ….etc…)

The traditional word for the Saudi male costume is “Thobe”, in Kuwait they call it “Dishdasha”

English (British English, American English, Indian English, EngRish, …etc..)

  • Wait a minute!! what is Engrish?

Hey, I thought you’d never ask… Engrish is a Pseudo dialect used by Japanese, it comes from the non existance of the “L” sound in the Japanese language which is replaced by the “R” sound, so London would be pronounced Rondon, calendar to carendar (the myth of changing the R’s back to L’s is a fake)

  • So you mean some thing like this?

 Pharmacy situation

Not quite, but you get the idea :)

What I meant with this post is the use of the Latin characters (or numerals) to write Arabic words for example

Train :pronounced Quitar or qetar  قـطار

Some poeple would write it 8etar (with the number “8″ ), meaning that some letters are substituted by numbers representing a specific sound

7 (ha) ح

‘7 (kha) خ

8 (gha) ق

6 (ta) ط

‘6 (tha) ظ

3 (ain) ع

‘3 (gain) غ

Now seeing that there is no عـنـقـريزي who would like to write the rules for it?

:)

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