Talk:Arabic
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At Arabic#Structure there is a sentence "The suras, also known as chapters of the Quran, are not placed in chronological order". The link in that sentence points to Suras which redirects to Sudra Kingdom. Since the sentence is about the Quran, the link should probably point to Surah which is the actual article on the chapters of the Quran. Alternatively the redirect at Suras could be changed to achieve the same result.2406:5A00:EC14:B800:A9A4:3E19:E094:B9 (talk) 01:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Boutarfa Nafia (talk) 20:17, 29 December 2021 (UTC) "change third most to third most spoken(even though it is false because mandarin is more spoken than arabic) "
These two countries do not have any spoken dialect of Arabic of their own. Only Standard Arabic is taught and is most widespread in these areas. Only a fraction of the Arabic speakers in Djibouti and Somalia have a genuine Yemeni Arabic dialect from prior habitation in Yemen, more people only know Standard Arabic than speak Yemeni Arabic there. The Yemeni dialect of Arabic is not predominant in Djibouti and Somalia. Afar and Somali are the local vernaculars, while Standard Arabic is the main form of Arabic learned for religious and commercial reasons. I suggest changing the map and somehow reflecting this reality. AzanianPearl (talk) 14:07, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
@Iskandar323: Dialect suggests there is a pattern to it and unwritten rules. There is none for the Arabic of this region. It is mostly heavily accented or badly spoken Standard Arabic, not a real L1 colloquial dialect like the case is with Yemen or other areas with L1 Arabic. These maps often cause confusion because people often skim through text and look at maps. This may lead people to believe that the Yemeni Arabic dialect is predominant in Djibouti and Somalia, while when you get there you mostly only hear L2 or L3 Fusha. Perhaps it should be completely split from the Yemen association then and just call it the Somali dialect. I hope somebody reading this can make this change. AzanianPearl (talk) 02:05, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
