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Sam6late | 3 months ago

In some occasion, when I was a student as native speakers, we came across people who would say words that would be hilarious to hear. They would drop a hidden vowel and say some words that made us laugh because they would allow two consonants clusters which is not used in Arabic. Such as Kamouj al bahr,instead of Kamouji elbahr (as sea wave).'The principle that two vowelless consonants (saakin letters) cannot meet is a fundamental rule in Arabic pronunciation, often referred to as التقاء الساكنين the meeting of two saakin letters).This is why English spoken by some Arabs, Egyptian in particular, has a distinctive accent that reflect that, so James sounds Jamsi, Street becomes Istreet.

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