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Add dialect word lists for Maghrebi and Gulf Arabic #1

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@uxbyissa

probe-rtl.js detects register mixing from word lists in the REGISTERS map. Egyptian and Levantine are reasonably covered; Gulf and Maghrebi are thin, so a product written in either will under-report.

Where: scripts/probe-rtl.js, the REGISTERS object.

What would help: more markers for gulf and maghrebi — particles, common verbs, and function words that are distinctive rather than shared with MSA. A marker that also appears in MSA is worse than no marker, because it produces a false positive, and false positives are what get a whole report ignored.

Please add a short note in the PR describing which variety each marker belongs to and, where a word is regional within a variety, say so. references/arabic-rtl.md has the current table and should be updated alongside.

Native or near-native familiarity with the variety matters more than JavaScript here — the code change is one array.

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