Decline of pan-Arabism :: inability of Arabs to move around the region, speak naturally and be easily understood is a big reason they do not always feel themselves to be one . [The Economist] - http://www.economist.com/blogs...
Jun 24, 2013
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"All educated Arabs learn the Koranic-based language that linguists call "modern standard Arabic". It is used in political speeches, news broadcasts and nearly all writing—but nobody speaks it spontaneously in the marketplace or over the dinner table. Most people struggle to write it correctly." \\ Spoken dialects lack mutual intelligibility. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWeb...
- Adriano