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Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian (Egyptian Arabic: العاميه المصريه [3] [4] [5] [el.ʕæmˈmejjæ l.mɑsˤˈɾejjɑ]), or simply Masri (also Masry, lit. ' Egyptian ' ) ( مَصرى ), [ 6 ] [ 7 ] is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt .
Egyptian Arabic has bitā‘ , which agrees in gender and number with the preceding noun (feminine bitā‘it/bita‘t, plural bitū‘ ). In Egyptian Arabic, the construct-state genitive is still productive, hence either kitāb-i or il-kitāb bitā‘-i can be used for "my book" [the difference between them is similar to the difference between ...
These singulative nouns in turn can be pluralized, using either the broken plural or the sound feminine plural in -āt; this "plural of paucity" is used especially when counting objects between 3 and 10, and sometimes also with the meaning of "different kinds of ...". (When more than 10 objects are counted, Arabic requires the noun to be in the ...
The following is a list of Egyptian films. The year order is split by decade. The year order is split by decade. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia, see Category:Egyptian films .
The charts below show how the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Egyptian Arabic pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters.
Phonemic Stage III (Adult mastery ~5 years) The flap/trill / ɾ / ~ / r / and all diphthongs and clusters are acquired, and geminate consonant distinction is stable. The phoneme / q / is rare in Egyptian Arabic and is typically only mastered with formal schooling at around age seven or eight, and is realized acceptably in the dialect as [ k ] .
The Egyptian language, or Ancient Egyptian (r n kmt; [1] [note 3] "speech of Egypt") is an extinct branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages that was spoken in ancient Egypt.It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts, which were made accessible to the modern world following the decipherment of the ancient Egyptian scripts in the early 19th century.
Egyptian black-and-white films (125 P) E. Egyptian film-related lists (1 C) English-language Egyptian films (4 P) F. Films by Egyptian directors (21 C) M.