Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

msal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: msal
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Abbreviation of Modern South Arabian languages.

Etymology

Apparently invented in the late 1990s as a substitute for MSA to avoid confusion with Modern Standard Arabic which bears the same abbreviation.

Inflected Forms

MSALs (alternative)

Synonyms

MSA

Questions

What does msal mean?: Abbreviation of Modern South Arabian languages.
Where does msal come from?: Apparently invented in the late 1990s as a substitute for MSA to avoid confusion with Modern Standard Arabic which bears the same abbreviation.

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