Lexical difference between classical and modern standard arabic

Asked Oct 19 '17 at 20:13

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I've seen that linguists do not consider fuṣḥa as one, but two varieties: classical and modern.

I know that the grammar is nearly identical, but how about the lexicon? false friends etc? Is there for example a study that gives a percentage of similarity?

edited Oct 21 '17 at 22:17

asked Oct 19 '17 at 20:13

Akli

Not an answer, but I found a blog post by Lameen Souag mentioning that some Quranic Arabic vocabulary could be obscure even to people who spoke something like Classical Arabic: Seaweed from Hell? A Qur'ānic hapax legomenon in a modern Arabic dialect – brass tacks Oct 19 '17 at 20:20

Lexical difference between classical and modern standard arabic

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