Re: Becoming triconsonantal, was: 'Arabiiya

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> And of course, somebody who could explain me what the stress
> patterns are in Arabic (take Modern Classical Arabic, not dialects, so that I
> can consider that it's not far from the stress pattern of Arabic in the time of
> Mahomet or before).
Stress in modern standard Arabic is not really defined, and depends on the
particular colloquial you speak.

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