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Arabic Dialect Sample Comparisons: Time

What time is it?

Levantine Dialects	Listen	English Meaning
Jordanian	listen	What time is it?
Lebanese	listen	What time is it? Do you have the time? (M.S.) Do you have the time? (F.S.) Do you have the time? (P.)
Palestinian	listen	What time is it?
Palestinian	listen	What time is it?
Palestinian	listen	What time is it?

Egyptian Dialect	Listen	English Meaning
Egyptian	listen	What time is it? Response: It is 9 am. What time is it? Response: It is 3pm. What time is it? Response: It is 10 pm. What time is it? Response: It is 12 pm (noon).

North African Dialects	Listen	English Meaning
Algerian	listen	What time is it? Response: It is 9 am. What time is it? Response: It is 3pm. What time is it? Response: It is 10 pm. What time is it? Response: It is 12 pm (noon)
Libyan	listen	What time is it now? What time is it now? What time is it now? What time is it now? What time is it? What time is it?
Moroccan	listen	What time is it? Do you have the time? What time is it now? Do you have the time now? Can you tell me the time? Can you tell me the time now? What time is it? What time is it?
Tunisian	listen	What time is it? Response: Now is 7:20.
Western Saharan & Mauritanian	listen	What is the time? What time do you have? (M.S.) What time do you have? (F.S.) What time do you have? (P.) What time is it? What time do you have? ((M.S.) What time do you have? (F.S.) What time do you have? (P.)

Other Major Dialects	Listen	English Meaning
Iraqi	listen	What time is it? Response: It’s 6 in the morning. What time is it? Response: It’s 3 in the afternoon. What time is it? Response: It’s 10 at night. What time is it? Response: It’s 12 noon.
Bahraini	listen	What time is it? Response: It is 9 am. What time is it? Response: It is 3pm. What time is it? Response: It is 10 pm. What time is it? Response: It is 12 pm (noon).
Yemeni	listen	What time is it? What time is it?

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