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HassanSiddiq
1 Dec 2016

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how different is Saudi Arabic from MSA or FusHa?

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1 Dec 2016

@HassanSiddiq even though Saudi Arabia is small in population (About 20 millions), but there are a lot of spoken accents. And that because Saudi Arabia is very big in area.

there are 5 main accents:

1- Hijazi accent: This accent is mainly spoken in Jeddah city, also in Mecca am Medina and most of the cities in that area. this Hijazi accent seems to be influenced (specially the pronunciation) by Egyptian accent,

2- Al-Qassim region accent: this accent spoken in Al-Qassim region.

3- Southern accent: There are three accents spoken in the South of Saudi Arabia, one is spoken in Al-baha & Asir, the second is spoken in Najran, and the third is spoken in Jizan.
There is one special accent spoken by a small group of people in Fayfa mountains near Yemen's borders. no one can understand them when they speak in their accent. some believes this accent spoken in Faifa mountains is the closest to the old Arabic that no one speaks today.

4- Northern accent: group of related accents spoken by the people lives in the north of Saudi Arabia.

5- Eastern accent: this accent is spoken in eastern cities, and very close with accents spoken in Kuwait and Iraq.

BUT: a lot of words in FusHa is still in use today by most of Arabic modern accents.

MSA is very close to spoken accents, and it's used in all newspaper and television programs. We don't need to learn anything to be able to speak MSA.

HassanSiddiq
1 Dec 2016

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OK thank you.can you tell me the difference between Egyptian Arabic and Saudi Arabic
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Deleted user
1 Dec 2016

@HassanSiddiq in Egypt there are two main accents:
1- Standard Egyptian Accent.
Most of Egyptians speak with this accent. when people talking about (Egyptian accent) they're referring to this accent.

2- Sa'idi Accent. This accent is spoken by Sa'idi people. the main difference between standard Egyptian accent and this accent is lay in the pronunciation of some letters.

if your origin is not from Saudi Arabia, then i think it's better to learn Egyptian accent, and that because of:

1- population of Egyptians is about 90 millions while the population of Saudis is 20 millions.

2- There less accents in Egypt than in Saudi Arabia.

We understand Egyptians and they understand us, the main difference is just in how they (Egyptians) pronounce some letters. and of course there is a lot of unshared vocabularies between the two accents.

I hope that was helpful for you.

HassanSiddiq
1 Dec 2016

  • Country or region United States
شكرا جزيلا
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1 Dec 2016

@HassanSiddiq عَلَى الرَّحْبِ و السِّعَة
You're welcome.

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