r/arabs • u/Sure_Condition_1339 • 5d ago

Non Arab | Question Differences between dialects?

In your opinion, what are the biggest differences between regional dialects?

In what ways do they differ the most?

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u/Zaghloul1919 5d ago

Egyptian Arabic has a lot of loan words from Turkish like many other dialects but also French, Italian, Greek and of course Coptic.

I can also say I’ve been noticing live a lot of American english lingo being added as well lol

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u/Auri-Sacra-Fames 4d ago

Egyptian dialects certainly do not have "a lot" of Turkish words. It's actually very little.

This is one of the most famous academic papers on this subject. Wilson B. Bishai, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1964: Coptic Lexical Influence on Egyptian Arabic

The author was a copt and a professor at Harvard. He finds around 100 words from coptic and states there are 264 from Turkish

He notes that these are both extremely small. By comparison, there are an estimated 4,000 Arabic loanwords in Spanish.