Masri

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Masri is a widely spoken modern Arabic dialect used primarily in Egypt, especially in everyday conversation and popular media.

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Masri canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic dialect
Egyptian Arabic
spoken language variety
vernacular Arabic
coexistsWith Modern Standard Arabic
surface form: Modern Standard Arabic in Egypt
hasAutonym مَصرِيّ
hasFeature distinct vocabulary from Modern Standard Arabic
phonological differences from Modern Standard Arabic
simplified case system compared to Classical Arabic
use of /g/ sound where Modern Standard Arabic often has /q/
hasName Egyptian Arabic
surface form: Colloquial Egyptian Arabic

Egyptian Arabic
hasRegister colloquial
informal
influencedBy Classical Arabic
Coptic
English
French
Italian
Turkish
isDistinctFrom Classical Arabic
Gulf Arabic
Levantine Arabic
Maghrebi Arabic
Modern Standard Arabic
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages
languageGroup Arabic
languageSubbranch Central Semitic languages
mutualIntelligibility partially intelligible with other Arabic dialects
primaryCountry Egypt
regionSpoken Alexandria
Cairo
Nile Delta
Suez Canal Zone
surface form: Suez Canal region
standardFormBasedOn Cairene speech
status non-official spoken variety in Egypt
typicalDomain advertising in Egypt
entertainment industry
informal communication
usedAs lingua franca in Egypt
popular dialect across the Arab world via media
usedIn Egyptian cinema
Egyptian popular media
Egyptian popular music
Egyptian social media
Egyptian television
everyday conversation in Egypt
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin script (informal online use)

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