Shami Arabic

E40304

Levantine Arabic dialect colloquial Arabic variety spoken language variety

Shami Arabic is a major colloquial variety of Arabic spoken across the Levant, including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and surrounding areas.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Levantine Arabic dialect ⓘ colloquial Arabic variety ⓘ spoken language variety ⓘ
alternativeName	Levantine Arabic ⓘ Levantine Arabic ⓘ surface form: Levantine Colloquial Arabic Levant region ⓘ surface form: al-ʿArabiyya ash-Shāmiyya
differsFrom	Modern Standard Arabic ⓘ
hasDialect	Levantine Arabic ⓘ surface form: Aleppine Arabic Levantine Arabic ⓘ surface form: Beirut Arabic Damascene Arabic ⓘ Levantine Arabic ⓘ surface form: Jordanian Arabic Levantine Arabic ⓘ surface form: Palestinian Arabic Rural Levantine varieties ⓘ Urban Levantine varieties ⓘ
hasFeature	distinct pronunciation of qāf as glottal stop in many urban dialects ⓘ loss of dual in many contexts compared to Classical Arabic ⓘ phonological reduction of case endings compared to Classical Arabic ⓘ use of b- prefix for present tense in many varieties ⓘ vocabulary influenced by English in urban centers ⓘ vocabulary influenced by French in Lebanese and some Syrian varieties ⓘ vocabulary influenced by Turkish ⓘ
ISOStatus	not standardized as a separate ISO 639-1 code ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages Arabic ⓘ Central Semitic languages ⓘ Semitic languages ⓘ
mutualIntelligibility	partially mutually intelligible with Egyptian Arabic ⓘ partially mutually intelligible with Iraqi Arabic ⓘ
region	Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant
register	primarily spoken, informal register ⓘ
relatedTo	Gulf Arabic ⓘ Maghrebi Arabic ⓘ surface form: North African Arabic dialects
spokenIn	Golan Heights ⓘ Israel ⓘ Jordan ⓘ Lebanon ⓘ Palestine ⓘ Syria ⓘ diaspora communities worldwide ⓘ Mediterranean Region of Turkey ⓘ surface form: southern Turkey
status	major regional lingua franca in the Levant ⓘ not an official state language ⓘ
subgroupOf	Eastern Arabic dialects ⓘ Levantine Arabic ⓘ surface form: Mashriqi Arabic
usedFor	everyday communication ⓘ popular music lyrics ⓘ social media communication ⓘ television drama ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Arabic script Latin script (informal, online) ⓘ

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Levantine Arabic → alternativeName → Shami Arabic ⓘ