Egyptian Arabic phrasebook
The Egyptian dialect of Arabic (`àràbi màSri عربى مصرى) is the modern Egyptian vernacular and the most widely spoken and understood colloquial variety of Arabic in the Arab world. It is spoken by more than 100 million people, mainly in Egypt. While it is used in everyday speech, comics, advertising, song lyrics, teen magazines, plays, and TV shows, it is rarely used in novels or newspapers, and almost never in news reporting, which use Modern Standard Arabic instead.
The phrasebook is based on the metropolitan Egyptian Arabic pronunciation of urban Egyptians in Cairo.
PronunciationArabic alphabet in general differ in shape slightly, depending on their position in the word.
Phrase listMany Arabic expressions are slightly different for men and women, depending both on the gender of the person talking (you) and the person being addressed.
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- Guide text adapted from the Wikivoyage article "Egyptian Arabic phrasebook" by its contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikivoyage · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0