Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic (Richard Slade Harrell Arabic Series) Review

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Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic (Richard Slade Harrell Arabic Series) ReviewLike all similar dictionaries, this is a dialect dictionary and is a guide to the vocabulary of the informal spoken language, not the written language. If you need a guide to the written language, buy Hans Wehr's Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic instead. Dialect dictionaries are, like this one, normally written in romanized form, as the Arabic script is of little use for pronunciation, especially where vowel qualities and stress are concerned.
Examples:
English ... Written Arabic ... Iraqi Arabic
'book' ... /kitaab/ written ... /kitaab/
'dog'.../kalb/ written .../chalb/
'with'... /ma9a/ written ... /ma9/ or /wiiya/
'there is' ...(no word in written Arabic) ... /aakuu/
As you can see, some words are the same and could easily be written in Arabic script (/kitaab/), some have letters peculiar to Iraqi ( and ), some words are different from written Arabic words (/wiiya/) and some words simply don't have written Arabic forms (/aakuu/). I agree that it would be convenient to have the written Arabic words as well but it would have been a lot of extra work (Van Ess in his now very out-of-date teaching book "The Spoken Arabic of Iraq" does so, and properly doesn't try to force spoken to fit the written Arabic but gives the written forms in Arabic script with vowel marks and the Iraqi colloquial in romanized form, which is a boon to anyone who's studied written Arabic at all).
Dictionary of Iraqi Arabic (Richard Slade Harrell Arabic Series) OverviewA reference of Baghdad colloquial Arabic, this volume serves as a comprehensive dictionary for American English speakers. The some 11,200 entries are ordered according to the traditional Arabic root system.

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