Baghdadi Arabic
Baghdadi Arabic is the variety of Arabic spoken in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. During the 20th century, Baghdadi Arabic has become the lingua franca of Iraq and the language of commerce and education. It is considered a subset of Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic.
Phonology
Vowels
The vowel phoneme is usually realised as an opening diphthong, for most speakers only slightly diphthongised, but for others a more noticeable, such that, for instance, lēš will sound like liēš, much like a drawl in English. There is a vowel phoneme that evolved from the diphthong to resemble more of a long sound, as in words such as kaun shifting to kōn. A schwa sound is mainly heard in unstressed and stressed open and closed syllables.Consonants
Even in the most formal of conventions, pronunciation depends upon a speaker's background. Nevertheless, the number and phonetic character of most of the 28 consonants has a broad degree of regularity among Arabic-speaking regions. Arabic is rich in uvular, pharyngeal, and pharyngealized sounds. The emphatic coronals cause assimilation of emphasis to adjacent non-emphatic coronal consonants. The phonemes ⟨پ⟩ and ⟨ڤ⟩ are not considered to be part of the phonemic inventory, as they exist only in foreign words and they can be pronounced as ⟨ب⟩ and ⟨ف⟩ respectively depending on the speaker.Phonetic notes: