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Old 11-05-2005, 04:39 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I was told by some Arabic educating books that hamza sound is similar to British guttural stops, like in words butter (Brits say it like bu'er), or take this example:

not a lot of people know about that!

Brits would say:

no' a lo' ov people know abou' tha'!

Through English it is easy to understand but then further its says ayin is pronounced in similar way but with greater force, with a bigger explosion in you throat!!!???

I see Egyptians totally ignore sound represented by "qaf" I noticed that in the ah we nuss song.
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