The Arab street is stopping speaking Arabic

OK, Jordanian Starbucks customers (via Taccuino di Traduzione). More on Arabizi and language death from Jordanian blogger Lina. I know an Itsi-Bitsi-Teeny-Weeny-Honolulu-Strandbikini bit about East African Arabic creoles, but this is new to me. I guess that there must have also existed Romance-Arabic creoles at some stage (Mozarabic was, of course, not one), but I’m not about to start rabbiting on about that kind of stuff again.

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sean mallison
December 7th 2006 11:54
can you halp i am trying to find the name emma but in arabic ant to be able to write it down could you help?
thanks sean.
Trevor ap Simon
December 7th 2006 19:14
What does إمما do for you?

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