I noticed the qaf in qarya is pronounced as in fus 7 a whereas it us pronounced as a hamza in the other words . Is Qarya a recent loan from standard ? She also says qarrar with a qaaf . I don ' t think there ' s a rule as to when a letter is pronounced which way . In Kuwaiti we have the qaaf and the hard g and there ' s really no way to tell when to use which . We also have k and ch to pronounce the same letter , and y and j to pronounce the same letter . Sometimes the pronunciation of a letter can be interchangeable even within the same word , eg . you can say chalb or kalb for dog . Also interesting to note that it ' s one of the dialects where inti in a dialogue addressing a masculine second person is used . That ' s a pretty common feature of Levantine dialects . Maybe it ' s exaggerated in this one , but words with a taa marboo 6 a or a fat 7 a are pronounced ehi . She also says madeeni city . It ' s a shorter sound than a yaa .