North Levantine Arabic

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North Levantine Arabic
اللهجة الشامية الشمالية
Native toLebanon, Syria, Çukurova (Turkey)
SpeakersL1: 30 million (2019)[1]
L2: 360,000
Total: 31 million
Dialects
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3(covered by apc)
Glottolognort3139
IETFapc
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North Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الشمالية, romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya š-šamāliyya, North Levantine Arabic: il-lahje š-šāmiyye š-šmāliyye) is a subdivision of Levantine Arabic. It is also known as Syro-Lebanese Arabic,[1] though that term is sometimes used to mean all of Levantine Arabic.[2]

It stems from the north in Turkey, specifically in the coastal regions of the Adana, Hatay, and Mersin provinces,[1][3] to Lebanon,[4][1] passing through the Mediterranean coastal regions of Syria (the Latakia and Tartus governorates) as well as the areas surrounding Aleppo and Damascus.[1][5]

With over 31 million speakers worldwide as of 2022,[1] North Levantine Arabic is used for daily speech mainly in Lebanon and Syria, while most of the written and official documents and media use Modern Standard Arabic.[6]

Dialects[edit]

  • Syrian Arabic: The dialect of Damascus and the dialect of Aleppo are well-known.[1]
  • Lebanese Arabic: North Lebanese, South Lebanese (Metuali, Shii), North-Central Lebanese (Mount Lebanon Arabic), South-Central Lebanese (Druze Arabic), Standard Lebanese, Beqaa, Sunni Beiruti, Saida Sunni, Iqlim-Al-Kharrub Sunni, Jdaideh[1]
  • Çukurova, Turkey: Cilician/Çukurovan[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i North Levantine Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) closed access
  2. ^ Versteegh, Kees (2009). Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics. Leiden: Brill. p. 170. ISBN 9789004177024. OCLC 401165899.
  3. ^ Turkey in Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2022). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (25th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  4. ^ "Glottolog 3.2 - North Levantine Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  5. ^ Jordan and Syria in Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2022). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (25th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
  6. ^ Decker, Donald M. (1999). Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780521637510.
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