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As if learning standard Arabic wasn’t difficult enough, you may need to learn a separate dialect of the language if you plan to travel extensively in any one region. The following are some of the most common dialects and where you can expect to hear them used.

Different variants of the Arabic language are spoken in many different nations and regions around the world, most commonly throughout northern Africa and the Middle Eastern nations. However, in many areas, the differences in regional dialects may make one Arabic speaker nearly incomprehensible to another. In most cases, the different dialects don’t have a specific written form of the language, but there’s usually a certain amount of literature that accompanies each dialect, including poetry and plays. This is especially true for the dialects spoken in Egypt and Lebanon.

The following dialects are most commonly found in Arabic speech:

• Sudanese Arabic – Mostly spoken in the Sudan
• Levantine Arabic – This dialect is often heard in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and western Jordan
• Gulf Arabic – Mostly heard throughout the Gulf Coast from Kuwait to Oman
• Najdi Arabic – This dialect is most often heard in the desert and oasis areas of central Saudi Arabia
• Yemeni Arabic – This dialect is most common to Yemen
• Iraqi Arabic – The dialect most commonly spoken in Iraq
• Hijazi Arabic – This dialect is spoken in the area west of present-day Saudi Arabia, which is referred to as the Hejaz region.
• Egyptian Arabic – This is considered the most widely spoken and understood "second dialect." It’s mostly heard in Egypt
• Maghreb Arabic – Spoken mostly in Algeria, Tunis, Morocco, and western Libya
• Hassaniiya – Most often spoken in Mauritania
• Andalusi Arabic – This dialect of the Arabic language is now extinct, but it still holds an important place in literary history.
• Maltese – This form of Arabic dialect is most often found in Malta.

The most important factor in forming these individual dialects was the language originally spoken in the region. As Arabic-speaking people moved into various regions, aspects of the native language eventually became assimilated into Arabic speech patterns. New words were added to the language and, over the years, the pronunciation of words changed. Fortunately, although there are now a large number of dialects in the Arabic language, there is a common dialect understood by most people who speak Arabic.

The common dialect in Arabic language is called Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This dialect is understood or spoken as a second dialect by more than 206 million Arabic-speaking people. MSA is spoken in most formal situations, such as radio broadcasts, lectures and sermons, since it is the most commonly understood Arabic dialect. This dialect has been chosen in most Middle Eastern countries as the first language of the country, or at least the second in cases where a specific dialect predominates.

Without the common dialect of MSA, it would be impossible for many nations to communicate. In some areas, even neighbors wouldn’t understand one another. Because the Arabic language has changed so much over the last few centuries, many scholars worry that the original form of Arabic is being lost in translation. For this reason, many organizations are dedicated to preserving the original form of Arabic seen in the Quran, even though this version isn’t used in everyday speech.