Talk:Baghdadi Arabic

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Vowels

The sentence "A schwa sound [ə] is mainly heard in unstressed and stressed open and closed syllables" seems to say that [ə] is heard in all kinds of syllables. Clarify!--Linguistatlunch (talk) 19:51, 10 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

About the [q] /ق/

"[q] is heard in borrowings of non-Arabic languages."

"/ɡ/ is the pronunciation of /q/ in Baghdad Arabic and the rest of southern Mesopotamian dialects"

The above lines are highly misleading as the /g/ hasn't replaced /q/ completely, and is still heard in some words that are in regular use like (قلم) /qalam/, (قميص) /qamiːsˁ/, (قفل) /qufulˁ/ and a bunch of other words of Arabic origin or otherwise in Baghdad. Furthermore, classifying /q/ as an allophone here is also questionable as /q/ sounds different from /g/, and they do not seem to be in free variation.

More research is due here. Lilaclay (talk) 12:14, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]