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It's not really Arabic. That look like the Egyptian dialect. Also, Arabic is litteraly a language built to sound as poetic as possible. Fun fact : in ancient Arabia, the best poets regularly gathered for poetry dissing battles and the burns were sicker than anything today.
Egyptians don't use "shloun", this is a Levantine dialect, probably Syrian.
Yeah , i know . i couldn't understand the first word and though it was some kind of smudged text they tried erasing so didn't bother trying to decipher it. Remove that word and it's the Egyptian dialect and yet they sound nothing alike.
Egyptian dialect is a dialect of Arabic. It's still Arabic. It's the same as saying American English is not really English.
Also this is not in Egyptian dialect. This looks like the Arabian golf dialect.
Careful. You'll upset the British
Confirmed. I am British and upset.
Egyptian here, this isn't Egyptian شلون Isn't used in Egyptian Arabic
Still Arabic though? All dialects are still Arabic.
I've been given the impression that dialect for Arabic is sort of like calling French and Spanish dialects of Latin.
It isn't. Mutual intelligibility is very high. There is something called lexical distance, and the lexical distance among Arabic dialects is negligible.
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.