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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by jnbiche on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:07AM (#18301452)
> The "generic" Egyptian/Lebanese/Syrian dialect will easily be understood by most Middle Easterners and a fair chunk of North Africans.

But note that Egyptian Arabic is very different from Lebanese and Syrian Arabic (which both are in the Levantine Arabic family).

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Re:Arabic, a great language, has a low profile by Cyph0n on Thursday October 25, 2018 @11:09AM (#18301475)
Definitely! I was just pointing out that these three dialects are the most universally understood, primarily due to their domination of Arabic music and film/TV.
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