North Levantine Arabic

Dialect of 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 was also known as Syro-Lebanese Arabic,[1] though that term was also used to refer to all Levantine Arabic varieties.[2]

It was reported by Ethnologue as stemming from the north of the Levant 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]

## Dialects

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* Syrian Arabic: Damascene and Aleppo dialects 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]
* Cilicia, Turkey: Cilician Arabic[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g North Levantine Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
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. ^ "Glottolog 4.8 - South Levantine Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
7. ^ "Request for Change to ISO 639-3 Language Code" (PDF). iso639-3.sil.org.

For a list of words relating to North Levantine Arabic, see the North Levantine Arabic language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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* Syrian
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* Jewish
* Lebanese
* Cilician
* Jordanian
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* Northwest Arabian Arabic
* Cypriot Arabic

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