North Levantine Arabic

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North Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الشمالية, romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya š-šamāliyya, North Levantine: el-lahje š-šāmiyye š-šmāliyye) was defined in the ISO 639-3 international standard for language codes as a distinct Arabic variety, under the apc code. It is also known as Syro-Lebanese Arabic,^[1] though that term is also used to mean all of Levantine Arabic.^[2]

It was reported by Ethnologue as stemming from the north in Turkey (specifically 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]

In 2023, South Levantine Arabic and North Levantine Arabic were merged into a single Levantine Arabic in the ISO,^[6] based on the high mutual intelligibility between Arabic varieties spoken by sedentary populations across the Levant and the lack of clear distinctions between variants along national borders.^[7]

• 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]

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