South Levantine Arabic
South Levantine (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية), a subdivision of Levantine Arabic, is spoken predominantly in Palestine, as well as in the western area of Jordan (in the ‘Ajlun, Al Balqa’, Al Karak, Al Mafraq, ‘Amman, Irbid, Jarash, and Madaba governorates).[3]
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| اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية | |
| Native to | Jordan, Palestine, Israel |
Native speakers | 11.6 million (2016)[1] |
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| ISO 639-3 | ajp |
| Glottolog | sout3123[2] |
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References
- "Arabic, South Levantine Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "South Levantine Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Jordan and Syria". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
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