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| Syrian Arabic | ||
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| Spoken in | Syria | |
| Total speakers | — | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
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| Writing system | Arabic alphabet | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in | none | |
| Regulated by | none | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | apc | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Syrian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة السورية) is a Levantine variety of Arabic spoken in Syria and Lebanon. Syria has three major dialectal zones. Central from Damascus to Hama and North in the Aleppo region. Varieties of Syrian Arabic are spoken in these zones.
In the East, mainly in Al-Hasakah, Ar-Raqqah, and Deir ez-Zor, varieties of Iraqi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic are spoken. These are not regarded as forms of "Syrian Arabic".
The diagnostic features of Syrian Arabic (also found in Lebanese Arabic and urban Palestinian Arabic) are:
- the pronunciation of final -ah as "é";
- the pronunciation of qaf as a glottal stop (/ʔ/) in a fashion similar to Egyptian Arabic and unique to Levantine Arabic and Egyptian Arabic.
See also
External links
- http://syrianarabic.com Free course (with copyright).
- http://www.dalilusa.com/arabic_course/syrian_course_samples.asp 2 free lessons (other lessons require payment).
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