North Levantine Arabic

North Levantine Arabic
اللهجة الشامي الشمال
Native to Lebanon, Syria, Chukurova (Turkey)
Native speakers
 24.2 million (2014-2015)[1]
Dialects
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
apc
Glottolog nort3139[2]

North Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامي الشمال‎) is a subdivision of Levantine Arabic. It stems from the north in Turkey, specifically in the coastal regions of the Adana, Hatay, and Mersin provinces,[3][4] to Lebanon,[5][3] passing through the Mediterranean coastal regions of Syria (the Al Ladhiqiyah and Tartus governorates) as well as the areas surrounding Aleppo and Damascus.[3][6]

With over 24 million native speakers worldwide as of 2015,[3] Northern 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.

Dialects

  • Syria: Aleppine, Damascene[3]
  • Lebanon: 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[3]
  • Çukurova, Turkey: Cilician, Çukurovan[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Arabic, North Levantine Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "North Levantine Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Arabic, North Levantine Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  4. ↑ "Turkey". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  5. ↑ "Glottolog 3.2 - North Levantine Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  6. ↑ "Jordan and Syria". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
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