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]

South Levantine Arabic
اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية
Native toJordan, Palestine, Israel
Native speakers
11.6 million (2016)[1]
Dialects
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
ajp
Glottologsout3123[2]
  South Levantine

See also

References

  1. "Arabic, South Levantine Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  2. 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.
  3. "Jordan and Syria". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-21.


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