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stops and , respectively, particularly in the context of front vowels e.g. ??? ('dog'). Dialect leveling as a result of influence from the Riyadh-based prestige varieties has led to the affricate allophones becoming increasingly less common among younger speakers.
* Historically, was deleted. It now appears only in borrowings from Classical Arabic; word-medially, this deletion comes along with the lengthening of short vowels.
* The phones <?> and <?> (not used by all speakers) are not considered to be part of the phonemic inventory, as they exist only in foreign words and can be pronounced as and respectively depending on the speaker.

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