Gulf Arabic Grammar
...G.2.1. Definite Article ...G.2.2 Personal Pronouns ...G.2.3 Possessive Pronouns ...G.2.4. Possessives with maal- ...G.2.5 Commands and Requests ...G.2.6 Broken Plural ...G.2.7 Plural -aat ...G.2.8 Plural -iin ...G.2.9 Plural -iyya ...G.3.1 The Construct State - iDaafat ...G.3.2 The Dual Form ...G.3.3 Adjectives ...G.3.4 Personal Pronoun Suffixes ...G.3.5 Prepositions ...G.3.6 To Have, 3ind- ...G.3.7 Past Tense I ...G.4.1 More on Adjectives ...G.4.2 Comparison Forms ...G.4.3 Numbers: Cardinals and Ordinals ...G.4.4 Telling the Time ...G.4.5 Question Words ...G.4.6 This, That, These (Demonstrative Pronouns) ...G.4.7 Past Tense II

Gulf Arabic Sounds

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( I ) CONSONANTS

Group A – with approximately the same pronunciation as their English counterparts.

b – bagar , baachir , il-ba7reyn

d – daftar , 7amdaan , dostuur

dh – dhimma , tadhkara , dhahab (Like ‘th’ in ‘that’, ‘those’.)

p – panka , panchar , parda

ch – chayf , cham , chidhii (This is a distinctly Bedouin sound, used many times (but NOT always) where ‘k’ would be used in Standard Arabic.)

f – firiij , kilaafa , aal xaliifa

g – gaam , rigad , gilt

h – haadha , ihni , dhahab

j – juuti , bi-l-jumla , jaasim

k – il-kuwayt , kisabna , yaktib

m – malik , madrasa , mumayyaz

n – naashif , minhu , alwaan

s – islaam , saalim , dars

sh – yishfi , shiyar , sh gilt?

t – tooba , gilt , tadris

th – thaalith , ithnayn , thoor

w – wiyyaana , ward , wujood

y – ya salaam! , mayz , daray

z – azyan , zoor , zaytoon

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