Talk:منيح

Do you think you can figure if this is North or South Levantine? —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 00:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * It is included in Maksoud N. Feghali Spoken Lebanese (1998) p. 10, so it is North Levantine. You are supposed to decide if a word is North or South Levantine Arabic and use  with the codes apc and ajp instead of the Literary Arabic templates. Palaestrator verborum (loquier) 00:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Great work! I updated the entry format (using code ). —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 01:20, 28 November 2017 (UTC)


 * : I can't tell, which dialect but "ʾanta" is a very standard pronunciation of (feminine : "ʾanti"). Unless one tries to be very formal and mixes MSA with dialects, most Eastern dialects use "ʾinta" for males and "ʾinti" for females. In that case one could spell  with a hamza underneath (أ is followed by "a" or "u" and "إ" by "i") or as in dialects, with less strict spellings, no hamza at all: . I also doubt that "و" ("and") is romanised as "wa" in Lebanese (maybe "we" or "wi"). --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 11:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Honestly, I don't know anything about Arabic, so I cannot judge the accuracy of the entry. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 12:51, 29 November 2017 (UTC)


 * It's definitely North Levantine, but I'm sure South Levantine as well. The pronouns for "you" are inta, inti, as you said. The word for "and" is simply w, realised [w] or [ʊ]. Sometimes it can be wi. There's no need to use an initial hamza in the transliteration because every word-initial vowel has a hamza, including ones like that don't have a hamza in standard Arabic. (Initial ‹’› can maybe be used to distinguish the words with original "q", though that's a matter of taste.) In certain frequent combinations, including e.g. w-ana, w-inta, the hamza may be elided, but that's optional and doesn't constitute a phonemic distinction, just an occasional contraction. I also changed the sentence to ana mnīḥ, w-inta kīfak. It's sounds more natural with the last word, though I couldn't say that leaving it out would be wrong. 2.203.201.61 05:47, 24 July 2019 (UTC)