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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It isn't. Mutual intelligibility is very high. There is something called lexical distance, and the lexical distance among Arabic dialects is negligible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Say that to new learners that started with standard arabic . let's take a car سيارة
In algeria it's طاكسي in Tunisia كرهبة in Egyptian عربية( the Egyptian one use an archaic word for car )

Am native and yet still struggle understanding all these dialects.