Jordan Languages

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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]

Word List(s)

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Alphabet

Pronunciation

Language Aids and Dictionaries

Dictionaries

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

Online Dictionaries

Language Aids

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

Additional Resources

  • Abboud, Peter F and Ernest N McCarus. Elementary modern standard Arabic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Available at: WorldCat.

References

  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.