Accent Deep Dive will be a series of posts that provides details on the phonemic inventories of languages and compares them with the phonemic inventory and qualities of common American English pronunciation. Each post explains how the phonemic inventory of a language is likely going to affect the pronunciation of American English. We’re starting the series with Arabic for no other reasons than it is a widely used language, and A in English is a good starting point. Around 310 to 350 million people use Arabic as a first language. For perspective, that’s about the size of the United States population in 2024, according to census.gov. When including second-language speakers,… Read More
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