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Shami and Levantine Dialect

Arabic:

Ya Salaam!

English:

Oh wow!

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posted on: Nov 30, 2020

Additional letters are used in Arabic to write place names or foreign words containing sounds that do not appear in Standard Arabic, such as /p/ or /g/.

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