According to Wikipedia, Modern Standard Arabic is different from Classical Arabic. As a native speaker of North African Arabic, I don't see the difference between the two, except for some inevita...
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Arabic has many dialects, but in general the /R/ in Modern Standard Arabic is an alveolar trill (or is it not?) - like the Spanish perro - according to Wikipedia and it is also what I have heard from many native speakers.
Does موجود is a Modern Standard Arabic word which is originated from وَجَدَ after the revelation of Quran because موجود is not mentioned anywhere in Quran?
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19 In Modern Standard Arabic, phonemic /lˤ/ (a.k.a. "emphatic l") only occurs in one native word: Allah /ʔalˤˈlˤaːh/. (According to the linked article, it also occurs in a few loanwords.) This seems like a profoundly weird situation. If a phoneme exists at all, you'd expect it to show up more than once.
The Wikipedia article on Egyptian Arabic lists 23-24 different plural patterns, which is certainly no simpler than the 14-17 patterns of Modern Standard Arabic referenced in the initial question. Getting rid of broken plurals from formal Arabic would have been a radical departure from most varieties of spoken Arabic.
5 Word stress in MSA follows a precise set of rules, which are described consistently in various Arabic grammar textbooks, e.g. Ryding's "A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic" (2005). However, none of the textbooks I have consulted describes what happens to the stress when the word starts with an elided hamza ("hamzat al-waSl").