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ISO 639-3: arz

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Other known names and dialect names: Egyptian Spoken Arabic, Cairene Arabic, Lower Egypt Arabic, Masri, Massry, Normal Egyptian Arabic, North Delta Arabic, South Central Delta Arabic

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Primary texts

  1. ONLINEHandbuch der Arabischen Dialekte. Behnstedt, P.; Grotzfeld, H.; Ingham, B; Sabuni, A; Schabert, P.; Singer, H.-R.; Tsotskhadze, L.; Woidich, M. 1980. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_arz_vertxt-2

Lexical resources

  1. ONLINECrúbadán language data for Egyptian Spoken Arabic. Kevin Scannell. 2018. The Crúbadán Project. oai:crubadan.org:arz
  2. ONLINEEgyptian - Arab notes. Arthur Capell. 1999. Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). oai:paradisec.org.au:AC2-OLVOC234
  3. ONLINEArabic, Egyptian Spoken Swadesh List. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_arz_swadesh-1
  4. ONLINEEgyptian Colloquial Arabic Lexicon. Kilany, Hanaa; Gadalla, H; Arram, Howaida; Yacoub, A; El-Habashi, Alaa; McLemore, C. 1997. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC99L22

Language descriptions

  1. ONLINEGlottolog 5.3 Resources for Egyptian Arabic. n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:glottolog.org:egyp1253
  2. ONLINEPHOIBLE 2.0 phonemic inventories for Egyptian Arabic. n.a. 2019. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. oai:phoible.org:egyp1253
  3. ONLINECairene Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. Gary, Judith Olmsted and Gamal-Eldin, Saad. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:1027
  4. ONLINEFormal Problems in Semitic Phonology and Morphology. McCarthy, J. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:1703
  5. ONLINEOn Stress and Syllabification. McCarthy, J. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:1704
  6. ONLINESyntax of spoken Arabic. A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects. Brustad, Kristen E. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:1936
  7. ONLINEAn Introduction to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. Mitchell, T. F. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:1989
  8. ONLINEReduplicative Constructions. Moravcsik, Edith A. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:2981
  9. ONLINEA Comprehensive Study of Egyptian Arabic. Abdel-Massih, Ernest T. and Abdel-Malek, Z. N. and Badawi, E.-S. M. and McCarus, E. N. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4145
  10. ONLINEArabic verbs in time: tense and aspect in Cairene Arabic. Eisele, J. C. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4257
  11. ONLINEProblems of Americans in Mastering the Pronunciation of Egyptian Arabic. Kennedy, N. M. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:430
  12. ONLINEModality, Mood and Aspect in Spoken Arabic (with special reference to Egypt and the Levant). Mitchell, T. F. and Al-Hassan, S. A. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4397
  13. ONLINEA transformational Grammar of Spoken Egyptian Arabic. Wise, Hilary. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:4892
  14. ONLINELes langages de l'humanité: une encyclopédie des 3000 langues parlées dans le monde. Malherbe, Michael and Rosenberg, S. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:5653
  15. ONLINEColloquial Arabic: the Living Language of Egypt. Mitchell, T. F. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:570
  16. ONLINELe parler arabe du Caire. Tomiche, Nada. 2026. WALS Online. oai:refdb.wals.info:832
  17. ONLINEHandbuch der Arabischen Dialekte. Behnstedt, P.; Grotzfeld, H.; Ingham, B; Sabuni, A; Schabert, P.; Singer, H.-R.; Tsotskhadze, L.; Woidich, M. 1980. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_arz_morsyn-1
  18. ONLINEWALS Online Resources for Arabic (Egyptian). n.a. 2026. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. oai:wals.info:aeg
  19. ONLINELAPSyD Online page for Egyptian Arabic. Maddieson, Ian. 2012. www.lapsyd.ddl.cnrs.fr. oai:www.lapsyd.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr:src142

Other resources about the language

  1. ONLINEArabic, Egyptian Spoken: a language of Egypt. n.a. 2018. SIL International. oai:ethnologue.com:arz
  2. ONLINELINGUIST List Resources for Arabic, Egyptian. Damir Cavar, eLinguistics Foundation Board Member (editor); Malgorzata E. Cavar, Director of Linguist List (editor). 2022-05-31. The LINGUIST List (www.linguistlist.org). oai:linguistlist.org:lang_arz
  3. ONLINEAn autosegmental theory of stress. Hagberg, Lawrence R. 2006. SIL International. oai:sil.org:9275
  4. ONLINEHandbuch der Arabischen Dialekte. Behnstedt, P.; Grotzfeld, H.; Ingham, B; Sabuni, A; Schabert, P.; Singer, H.-R.; Tsotskhadze, L.; Woidich, M. 1980. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_arz_contents-1
  5. ONLINEArabic, Egyptian Spoken Etc.. The Long Now Foundation. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_arz_misc-1
  6. ONLINEUniversal Declaration of Human Rights. n.a. n.d. The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language. oai:rosettaproject.org:rosettaproject_arz_undec-1
  7. ONLINEBOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Audio. Graff, David; Chen, Song; Strassel, Stephanie. 2025. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2025S09
  8. ONLINEBOLT CTS CALLFRIEND CALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts and Translations. Tracey, Jennifer; Chen, Song; Delgado, Dana; Strassel, Stephanie. 2025. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2025T14
  9. ONLINENarration sur son parcours universitaire. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-6e1295c2-1dba-4104-9295-c21dba9104af
  10. ONLINENarration sur la situation la plus difficile de sa vie. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-7fdc30dd-4cab-4956-9c30-dd4cab8956a2
  11. ONLINENarration sur le jour d'accouchement de sa mère. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-eceb9bde-8518-4d14-ab9b-de85186d14e4
  12. ONLINENarration sur les souvenirs avec ses amis d'enfance. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-10751dee-7c1a-4cd5-b51d-ee7c1a2cd584
  13. ONLINENarration sur ce qu'il fait dans sa vie quotidienne. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-28943bd7-4bd2-4904-943b-d74bd2790427
  14. ONLINENarration sur les souvenirs avec ses amis d'enfance. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-b70bb2d8-8301-456c-8bb2-d88301b56c35
  15. ONLINENarration sur la situation la plus difficile de sa vie. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-f1703716-f869-4c4a-b037-16f8694c4a48
  16. ONLINENarration sur ce qu'il fait dans sa vie quotidienne. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-8d3a40bf-658a-4327-ba40-bf658aa3270e
  17. ONLINENarration sur son parcours universitaire. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-5d1cdd01-1536-497e-9cdd-011536897eba
  18. ONLINENarration sur le jour d'accouchement de sa mère. Galal, Mohamed (depositor); Galal, Mohamed (researcher); Projet ANR Autogramm (ANR-21-CE38-0017) (sponsor). 2024. Université de Sohag. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-7db7c4d7-0e63-418a-b7c4-d70e63218ad0

Other resources in the language

  1. ONLINE1997 HUB5 Arabic Evaluation. Graff, David; Martin, Alvin; Miller, David; Przybocki, Mark; Walker, Kevin. 2002. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2002S22
  2. ONLINECALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Speech Supplement. Linguistic Data Consortium. 2002. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2002S37
  3. ONLINECALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts Supplement. Linguistic Data Consortium. 2002. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2002T38
  4. ONLINE1997 HUB5 Arabic Transcripts. Linguistic Data Consortium. 2002. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2002T39
  5. ONLINE2008 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Training Set Part 1. NIST Multimodal Information Group. 2011. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2011S05
  6. ONLINECALLFRIEND Egyptian Arabic. Canavan, Alexandra; Zipperlen, George. 1996. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC96S49
  7. ONLINECALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Speech. Canavan, Alexandra; Zipperlen, George; Graff, David. 1997. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC97S45
  8. ONLINECALLHOME Egyptian Arabic Transcripts. Gadalla, Hassan; Kilany, Hanaa; Arram, Howaida; Yacoub, Ashraf; El-Habashi, Alaa; Shalaby, Amr; Karins, Krisjanis; Rowson, Everett; MacIntyre, Robert; Kingsbury, Paul; Graff, David; McLemore, Cynthia. 1997. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC97T19
  9. ONLINE2003 NIST Rich Transcription Evaluation Data. Fiscus, Jonathan G.; Doddington, George R.; Le, Audrey; Sanders, Greg; Przybocki, Mark; Pallett, David. 2007. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2007S10
  10. ONLINE2003 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation. Martin, Alvin; Pryzbocki, Mark. 2006. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2006S31
  11. ONLINE2007 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Supplemental Training Set. Martin, Alvin; Le, Audrey; Graff, David; van Santen, Jan. 2009. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2009S05
  12. ONLINE2008 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Training Set Part 2. NIST Multimodal Information Group. 2011. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2011S07
  13. ONLINE2008 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test Set. NIST Multimodal Information Group. 2011. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2011S08
  14. ONLINEArabic-Dialect/English Parallel Text. Raytheon BBN Technologies; Linguistic Data Consortium; Software, Sakhr. 2012. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2012T09
  15. ONLINEJANA: A Human-Human Dialogues Corpus for Egyptian Dialect. Elmadany, AbdelRahim A.; Abdou, Sherif M.; Gheith, Mervat. 2016. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2016T24
  16. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic SMS/Chat and Transliteration. Chen, Song; Fore, Dana; Strassel, Stephanie; Lee, Haejoong; Wright, Jonathan. 2017. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2017T07
  17. ONLINEBOLT Arabic Discussion Forums. Tracey, Jennifer; Lee, Haejoong; Strassel, Stephanie; Ismael, Safa. 2018. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2018T10
  18. ONLINEBOLT Information Retrieval Comprehensive Training and Evaluation. Griffitt, Kira; Strassel, Stephanie. 2018. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2018T18
  19. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic Treebank - Discussion Forum. Maamouri, Mohamed; Bies, Ann; Kulick, Seth; Krouna, Sondos; Tabassi, Dalila; Ciul, Michael. 2018. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2018T23
  20. ONLINEBOLT Arabic Discussion Forum Parallel Training Data. Chen, Song; Tracey, Jennifer; Walker, Christopher; Strassel, Stephanie. 2019. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2019T01
  21. ONLINECALLFRIEND Egyptian Arabic Second Edition. Canavan, Alexandra; Zipperlen, George; Bartlett, John. 2019. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2019S04
  22. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian-English Word Alignment -- Discussion Forum Training. Li, Xuansong; Peterson, Katherine; Grimes, Stephen; Strassel, Stephanie. 2019. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2019T06
  23. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic Treebank - Conversational Telephone Speech. Maamouri, Mohamed; Bies, Ann; Kulick, Seth; Krouna, Sondos; Tabassi, Dalila; Ciul, Michael. 2021. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2021T12
  24. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic-English Word Alignment -- SMS/Chat Training. Li, Xuansong; Grimes, Stephen; Strassel, Stephanie. 2019. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2019T18
  25. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic-English Word Alignment -- Conversational Telephone Speech Training. Li, Xuansong; Grimes, Stephen; Strassel, Stephanie. 2020. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2020T05
  26. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic Co-reference -- Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational Telephone Speech. Agarwal, Nitin; Francini, Michelle; Kappler, Michelle; Micciulla, Linnea; Pradhan, Sameer; Ramshaw, Lance. 2021. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2021T14
  27. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic SMS/Chat Parallel Training Data. Tracey, Jennifer; Delgado, Dana; Chen, Song; Strassel, Stephanie. 2021. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2021T15
  28. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic Treebank - SMS/Chat. Maamouri, Mohamed; Bies, Ann; Kulick, Seth; Krouna, Sondos; Tabassi, Dalila; Ciul, Michael. 2021. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2021T17
  29. ONLINEBOLT Egyptian Arabic PropBank and Sense -- Discussion Forum, SMS/Chat, and Conversational Telephone Speech. Palmer, Martha; Hwang, Jena D.; Mansouri, Aous; Bonial, Claire; O'Gorman, Tim; Gung, James. 2021. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2021T18
  30. ONLINE2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set. Greenberg, Craig; Sadjadi, Omid; Graff, David; Walker, Kevin; Jones, Karen; Caruso, Christopher; Strassel, Stephanie; Wright, Jonathan. 2025. Linguistic Data Consortium. oai:www.ldc.upenn.edu:LDC2025S02
  31. ONLINEParadigm of the Siwi verb əlməd "learn". Souag, Lameen (depositor); Bougdoura, Sherif (speaker); British Academy (sponsor); Souag, Lameen (researcher). 2022. Laboratoire de langues et civilisations à tradition orale. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-116c50fe-4c08-43b8-ac50-fe4c0813b86b
  32. ONLINEHopes for Siwa's future. Souag, Lameen (depositor); Bougdoura, Sherif (speaker); British Academy (sponsor); Souag, Lameen (researcher). 2022. Laboratoire de langues et civilisations à tradition orale. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-3c0f9ea4-bc5f-4870-8f9e-a4bc5f28709c
  33. ONLINEThe story of the Prophet Joseph. Souag, Lameen (depositor); Bougdoura, Sherif (speaker); Souag, Lameen (researcher); Arts and Humanities Research Council (sponsor). 2022. Laboratoire de langues et civilisations à tradition orale. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-5feb0b04-2dbb-40ab-ab0b-042dbbe0abb3
  34. ONLINEPartial paradigms for the Siwi verbs ẓəll "pray" and ẓum "fast". Souag, Lameen (depositor); Bougdoura, Sherif (speaker); British Academy (sponsor); Souag, Lameen (researcher). 2022. Laboratoire de langues et civilisations à tradition orale. oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:cocoon-2bed3738-5cb2-4188-ad37-385cb2f18834

Other known names and dialect names: Egyptian Spoken Arabic, Cairene Arabic, Lower Egypt Arabic, Masri, Massry, Normal Egyptian Arabic, North Delta Arabic, South Central Delta Arabic

Other search terms: dialect, vernacular, discourse, stories, conversation, dialogue, documentation, lexicon, dictionary, vocabulary, wordlist, phrase book, grammar, syntax, morphology, phonology, orthography

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