South Levantine Arabic
South Levantine (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية), a subdivision of Levantine Arabic, is spoken in the Southern Levant, mostly the Palestinian Territories, Israel as well as in most of Jordan (in the ‘Ajlun, Al Balqa’, Al Karak, Al Mafraq, ‘Amman, Irbid, Jarash, and Madaba governorates).[2] It is also spoken in Southern Syria, particularly in the Hauran region of Daraa Governorate.[3] It is sometimes further subdivided in Jordanian Arabic and Palestinian Arabic.
| South Levantine Arabic | |
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| اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية | |
| Native to | Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Syria |
Native speakers | 12.4 million (2021)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| ISO 639-3 | ajp |
| Glottolog | sout3123 |
| IETF | ajp |
 South Levantine | |
References
- South Levantine Arabic at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- "Jordan and Syria". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
- "Arabic - MultiTree". www.multitree.org. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
External links
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South Levantine Arabic test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Levantine Arabic |
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For a list of words relating to South Levantine Arabic, see the South Levantine Arabic language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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