• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I think gumbo would be spelled as either “كمبو” or “غمبو” instead of the “ج” with the sound “sha” or “dya” depending on dialect.

    • rishado@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It can be قمبو (gulf) or جمبو (Egypt) as well.

      (For non Arabic speakers, hard G does not natively exist in Arabic and different dialects use a different letter to denote a hard G, a lot of the time contextually)