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John Cowan wrote: > Stress is not prescribed in modern standard > Arabic, and tends to follow the stress rules of the speaker's colloquial. Ok. That would explain much, because I see the replies seem to contradict. Kay wrote: > _wa:sI3atun_ (in case tanuwiin is pronounced as in Written Modern > Standard Arabic) That's what I would expect, tnough it seems strange to me. Kay also wrote: > -wa:sI3a_ (in case tanuwiin is not pronounced) Thats more strange. I would rather agree with Steg who wrote: > I know /wa:si3a/ is accented on the first syllable. The rule goes > something like "ultimate or penultimate vowel, if it's long; otherwise, > antepenultimate, if i remember correctly. That's a kinda rule I find in my primer too (but no stress ever on ultimate vowel). Anyway, Cairo example demonstrates possible direction of sound changes. Thanx. I'd appreciate futher comments on tanwiin'ed feminine forms with first long - second short vowel pattern. P.S. If somebody's interested, my wife nicknamed this crazy project of mine "Newgaritic". I think I'd use it at least as a provisional name. -- Yitzik