... Standard Arabic (MSA). MSA is
also used in some scripted spoken communica-
tion (news casts, parliamentary debates). MSA is
based on Classical Arabic and is not a native lan-
guage of any Arabic ... Instead, we use explicit knowledge
about the relation between LA and MSA.
1 Introduction: Arabic Di a lects
The Arabic language is a collection of spoken
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Abstract
The written form of Arabic, Modern Standard
Arabic (MSA), differs quite a bit from the
spoken dialects of Arabic, which are the true
“native” languages of Arabic speakers used in
daily ... written form of Arabic
known as Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The spo-
ken dialects of Arabic (Figure 2) differ quite a bit
from MSA and from each other. Th...