<Li> ق / q / retains its original pronunciation in widely scattered regions such as Yemen, Morocco, and urban areas of the Maghreb . It is pronounced as a glottal stop (ʔ) in several prestige dialects, such as those spoken in Cairo, Beirut and Damascus . But it is rendered as a voiced velar plosive (ɡ) in Persian Gulf, Upper Egypt, parts of the Maghreb, and less urban parts of the Levant (e.g. Jordan). In Iraqi Arabic it sometimes retains its original pronunciation and is sometimes rendered as a voiced velar plosive, depending on the word . Some traditionally Christian villages in rural areas of the Levant render the sound as (k), as do Shiʻi Bahrainis . In some Gulf dialects, it is palatalized to (d͡ʒ) or (ʒ). It is pronounced as a voiced uvular constrictive (ʁ) in Sudanese Arabic . Many dialects with a modified pronunciation for / q / maintain the (q) pronunciation in certain words (often with religious or educational overtones) borrowed from the Classical language . </Li> <Li> ج / d͡ʒ / is pronounced as an affricate in Iraq and much of the Arabian Peninsula, but is pronounced (ɡ) in most of North Egypt and parts of Yemen and Oman, (ʒ) in Morocco, Tunisia and the Levant, and (j), (i̠) in most words in much of the Persian Gulf . </Li> <Li> ك / k / usually retains its original pronunciation, but is palatalized to / t͡ʃ / in many words in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Iraq, and much of the Arabian Peninsula . Often a distinction is made between the suffixes / - ak / (' you', masc .) and / - ik / (' you', fem .), which become / - ak / and / - it͡ʃ /, respectively . In Sana'a, Omani, and Bahrani / - ik / is pronounced / - iʃ / . </Li> <P> Pharyngealization of the emphatic consonants tends to weaken in many of the spoken varieties, and to spread from emphatic consonants to nearby sounds . In addition, the "emphatic" allophone (ɑ) automatically triggers pharyngealization of adjacent sounds in many dialects . As a result, it may difficult or impossible to determine whether a given coronal consonant is phonemically emphatic or not, especially in dialects with long - distance emphasis spreading . (A notable exception is the sounds / t / vs. / tʕ / in Moroccan Arabic, because the former is pronounced as an affricate (t͡s) but the latter is not .) </P>

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