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Description

The official language is Modern Standard Arabic, a literary language taught in the schools. Most Jordanians natively speak one of the non-standard Arabic dialects known as Jordanian Arabic. ^[1]

Modern Standard Arabic ^[2]
Jordanian Arabic ^[3]

Word List(s)

Arabic Genealogical Word List
Modern_Standard_Arabic Common phrases - Wikipedia
Useful Arabic phrases - Omniglot
Basic Arabic Phrases and Expressions - ArabicPod101
Jordanian Arabic phrasebook - WikiTravel

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet

Modern Standard Arabic Alphabet - Wikipedia
Jordanian Arabic Alphabet - Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Arabic Pronunciation guide - WikiTravel

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Dictionaries

Tressy Arts, Oxford Arabic dictionary : Arabic-English · English-Arabic, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014 - Available at WorldCat
Nicholas Awde & K Smith, Arabic dictionary : Arabic-English, English-Arabic, London : Bennett & Bloom, 2004 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionaries

Arabic dictionary - Lexilogos
Dictionary English - Arabic - Glosbe

Language Aids

Karin C Ryding, A reference grammar of modern standard Arabic, Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2011 - Available at WorldCat
Mohammad T Alhawary, Modern Standard Arabic Grammar, Somerset : Wiley, 2011 - Available at WorldCat
Urs Bucher, Vocabulary of modern standard Arabic, Grossdietwil : Tobun, 1984 - Available at WorldCat
Arabic grammar - Wikipedia
Jordanian Arabic grammar - Wikipedia

Additional Resources

Peter F Abboud & Ernest N McCarus, Elementary modern standard Arabic, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007 - Available at WorldCat

References

↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Jordan," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan#Languages#:~:text=Languages, accessed 3 Feb 2022.
↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Modern Standard Arabic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic, accessed 3 Feb 2022.
↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Jordanian Arabic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_Arabic, accessed 3 Feb 2022.

[1] Wikipedia contributors, "Jordan," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan#Languages#:~:text=Languages, accessed 3 Feb 2022.

[2] Wikipedia contributors, "Modern Standard Arabic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic, accessed 3 Feb 2022.

[3] Wikipedia contributors, "Jordanian Arabic," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_Arabic, accessed 3 Feb 2022.

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