The Makki Child's Dictionary between the Classical and Colloquial Languages

The current study aims to identify the Meccan child's lexicon between the formal and colloquial language. The study sample included (401) boys and girls from Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022, a list of children's interrogation questions (prepared by the researchers) was applied to them. The results of the study indicated that there are statistically significant differences between the average scores of the sample children in the classical Arabic language and their average scores in the colloquial Arabic, in favor of the classical language, for all fields of the vocabulary of the child’s Meccan lexicon (food and drink, home, means of transportation and transportation, family and relatives, and means of Media, stories and tales, time and place, disease and treatment, animals, birds and plants, play and sports, and the total score of Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic).