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From French “Angleterre”, yes :-)
France has a long history in the Middle-East and its influence shows in modern words.
respectful correction: France has a long history in 'parts' of the Middle East - less than 50% Its influence thus shows strongly in Levantine Arabic dialect, spoken by about 10% of Arabs. But the generalization cannot be made as such for 'Arabic' (MSA). This answer has regional bias.
Egyptian Arabic for instance (twice as many speakers than Levantine) say the same word for England in their dialect derived from Italian not French. And Arabians in the Gulf (about 20% more speakers than Levantine) say the same word in their dialect derived in turn from Egyptian Arabic.
1570
Respectful correction: France has a history only in "part" of the Levantine. Nevertheless, its influence does not show strongly in most of it
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Do you know how long the word has been used in Arabic? Could it go right back to the Norman French influence of the awful Crusades?
probably quite long. There was a Norman-Arab-Italian joint kingdom afterall in Sicily, and there was a unique Sicilian Arabic dialect (closest to it today is the Maltese language).
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Neither, it's from Italian Inghilterra. Arabic has a word for the area way before French or Spanish had any influence on the language.
Yes. In foreign names, we sometimes pronounce ج as G in "Great" so it sounds closer to the original name.
no, ج has only ONE pronunciation in MSA - which is the j in John or the g in giraffe.
The Egyptian dialectical pronunciation of ج (like in g for google) is not correct in MSA The Levantine dialectical pronunciation of ج (like the j in bonjour) is not correct in MSA The Western Gulf dialectical pronunciation of ج (like the y in yellow) is not correct in MSA The Iraqi dialectical pronunciation of ج (like the ch in chacha) is not correct in MSA
However in proper noun consonant-by-consonant transliterations, it is correct in MSA to pronounce it as close as possible to the pronunciation as in the original language - like the word Ingeltra.
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No, audio is way off right now. But the way you wrote it out is the way it should be pronounced.
given that this is a borrowed non native word, it is harder to identify a standard MSA pronunciation, but accepted generally is: ingiltraa ingiltiraa
in Gulf it is more complicated (inyaltraa or injaltraa)
Duo doesn't care about capitals. So probably it doesn't recognize the "&". You can report it.
I thought in Arabic, England was just "Engalind" or "Engalund" or something like that. "Angiltiraa" sounds like a super traditional inversion of non-Arabic place names, kinda like calling Alexandria "Al-Iskandria."
I think you can derive it from "Angleterre" and "anglais", respectively. Perhaps due to French being the diplomatic language when modern politics started?
I've been doing lessons for 12 consecutive days. On only one day the audio played. It's difficult to learn a language without hearing it.
It says in arabic "2ingiltara"wich is a ❤❤❤❤ difference to what it had to be
I don't appreciate the sudden change up of pronunciation, it's confusing and not helping.
