Can Palestinians, Yemenis, and Iraqis Understand Each Other’s Dialects?

In this video we compare three dialects of Arabic (Palestinian, Yemeni, and Iraqi) to see how well they can understand each other, with Ayah representing the Fellahi variety of the Palestinian dialect, Meena representing the Baghdadi dialect of Iraq, and Anas representing the Sanʽani dialect of Yemen. Please note that the subtitles in the video are written so that they reflect the way the words are pronounced in the respective dialects, while typically they would be written in the standard form of Arabic but pronounced differently! All of the dialects have have unique features. The Palestinian dialect, also known as South Levantine Arabic, can be further divided into subdialects. The Madani (مدني) dialect of Palestinian are closer to the northern Levantine Arabic dialects, the colloquial variants of western Syria and Lebanon, while the Fellahi (فلاحي) variety is closely related with rural dialects in the outer southern Levant and in
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