Introduction
This lexicon represents the first electronic pronunciation dictionary
of Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA), the spoken variety of Arabic
found in Egypt. The dialect of ECA that this dictionary represents is
Cairene Arabic.
Data
The lexicon contains 51,202 entries, drawn from 140 CALLHOME (=LVCSR
=HUB5) telephone conversations among native speakers of Colloquial
Egyptian Arabic, collected and published by the LDC, plus supplemented
entries derived manually from the Badawi & Hines dictionary of
Colloquial Egyptian Arabic.
The lexical entries are written one to a line with tab-separated
fields, including orthographic representation in both the LDC
romanization as well as Arabic script, morphological, phonological,
stress, source, and frequency information for each word.
Here is a sample page.
Relative to earlier versions of the Arabic Pronouncing Lexicon, this
release provides not only a significant increase in the number of
entries, but also a significant effort to improve the quality and
consistency of all entries.
Updates
There are no updates at this time.
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