Sample Comparisons of Dialects
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Arabic Dialect Sample Comparisons: Shopping
Currency and prices
Levantine Dialects | Listen | English Meaning |
Jordanian | listen | Jordanian dinar, 5 piaster, 10 piaster, quarter dinar, half dinar, 1 dinar, 5 dinar, 10 dinar, 20 dinar, 50 dinar |
Lebanese | listen | Lebanese lira, 1000 lira, 5000, lira, 10000 lira, 20000 lira, 50000 lira, 100000 lira, 500 lira, 250 lira, 100 lira, 50 lira, 10 lira |
Egyptian Dialect | Listen | English Meaning |
Egyptian | listen | The Egyptian pound, 3 pounds, 20 pounds, 50 pounds, 70 pounds, 100 pounds, 500 pounds, 1000 pounds, 2000 pounds, 10000 pounds |
North African Dialects | Listen | English Meaning |
Algerian | listen | The Algerian dinar, 3 dorou, 10 dorou, 50 dorou, 70 dorou, 100 dorou, 500 franc, 1000 franc, 2000 franc, 10000 franc |
Libyan | listen | 5 piasters, 10 piasters, 25 piasters OR Quarter of a Libyan dinar, half Libyan dinar, One Libyan dinar. |
Moroccan | listen | 1 rial, 2 rial, 4 rial, 10 rial, 20 rial or 1 dirham (20 rial = 1 dirham) |
Tunisian | listen | Money, dinar, 20 franc, 50 franc, 100 franc, 2000 (2 dinars), 5000 (5 dinars), 10000 (10 dinars) |
Western Saharan & Mauritanian | listen | Money, dinar, 2 dinars, 3 dinars, 20 dinars |
Other Major Dialects | Listen | English Meaning |
Iraqi | listen | The Iraqi dinar, 25 dinar, 50 dinar, 75 dinar, 100 dinar, 250 dinar, 500 dinar, 1000 dinar, 2000 dinar, 10000 dinar, 1000000 dinar |
Bahraini | listen | The Bahraini dinar, 3 dinar, 20 dinar, 50 dinar, 70 dinar, 100 dinar, 500 dinar, 1000 dinar, 2000 dinar, 10000 dinar |