North Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الشمالية, romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya š-šamāliyya, North Levantine Arabic: il-lahje š-šāmiyye š-šmāliyye) is a subdivision of Levantine Arabic, a variety of Arabic. It stems from the north in Turkey, specifically in the coastal regions of the Adana, Hatay, and Mersin provinces,[2][3] to Lebanon,[4][2] passing through the Mediterranean coastal regions of Syria (the Latakia and Tartus governorates) as well as the areas surrounding Aleppo and Damascus.[2][5] It is also known as Syro-Lebanese Arabic,[2] though that term is sometimes used to mean all of Levantine Arabic.[6]

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North Levantine Arabic
اللهجة الشامية الشمالية
Native to	Lebanon, Syria, Chukurova (Turkey)
Native speakers	24.6 million (2016)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Levantine Arabic North Levantine Arabic
Dialects	Lebanese Arabic Syrian Arabic Çukurova Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	apc
Glottolog	nort3139
IETF	apc
North Levantine   South Levantine
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With over 24 million native speakers worldwide as of 2015,[2] 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. Its dialect continuum has been described as one of the two "dominant (prestigeful) dialect centres of gravity for Spoken Arabic", together with Egyptian Arabic.[7]

Dialects

• Syria: The dialect of Damascus and the dialect of Aleppo are well-known.[2]
• 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[2]
• Çukurova, Turkey: Cilician/Çukurovan[2]

See also

• Varieties of Arabic
• Levantine Arabic
• Lebanese Arabic
• Syrian Arabic
• Damascus Arabic
• South Levantine Arabic

References

External links

North Levantine Arabic test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Levantine Arabic

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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[es] Árabe levantino septentrional

[fr] Arabe levantin septentrional