Aug 7, 2015


عندما يرتجل الرءيس    السيس

President El Sessi speeches offer an excellent example of diaglossia.
Yesterday during the inauguration of the new Suez Canal, president El Sessi switched from his written speech, in standard Arabic, to colloquial.
This has been a regular aspect of all his formal speeches.
This offers an interesting study to students of Arabic and sociolinguistics.

1 comment:

  1. Suggested reading Reem Bassiouney's Language and Identity in Modern Egypt

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