Hejazi Arabic phonology | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/12/2018

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Hejazi Arabic phonology


00:00:48 1 Consonants
00:03:36 1.1 Illustrative words
00:04:16 2 Dental assimination
00:06:29 3 Vowels
00:09:45 4 Phonological processes



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The phonological system of the Hejazi Arabic consists of approximately 26 to 28 native consonant phonemes, and 8 vowel phonemes /a, u, i, aː, uː, oː, iː, eː/, in addition to 2 diphthongs /aw, aj/. Consonant length and Vowel length are both distinctive in Hejazi.
Strictly speaking, there are two main groups of dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the urban population حَضَرْ originally spoken in the major cities of Jeddah, Medina, Mecca and Ta'if who constitute the majority, and another by the bedouin or rural populations. However, the term most often applies to the urban variety which is discussed in this article.

phonemes will be (written inside slashes / /) and allophones (written inside brackets [ ]).