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These dialects are transitional between the Aleppine and the Coastal and Central dialects. [5] They are characterized by *q > ʔ, ʾimāla of the type the type sāfaṛ/ysēfer [2] and ṣālaḥ/yṣēliḥ, [5] diphthongs in every position, [5] [2] a- elision (katab +t > ktabt, but katab +it > katabit), [2] išṛab type perfect, [2] ʾimāla in reflexes of *CāʔiC, and vocabulary such as ...
Damascus Arabic (llahže ššāmiyye), also called Damascus dialect or Damascene dialect is a Levantine Arabic spoken dialect, indigenous to and spoken primarily in Damascus. As the dialect of the capital city of Syria, and due to its use in the Syrian broadcast media, it is prestigious and widely recognized by speakers of other Syrian dialects ...
A man speaking Syrian Arabic. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language of education and most writing, but it is not usually spoken. Instead, various dialects of Levantine Arabic, which are not mutually intelligible with MSA, [3] [4] are spoken by most Syrians, with Damascus Arabic being the prestigious dialect in the media.
Most dialects of Arabic will use for ق in learned words that are borrowed from Standard Arabic into the respective dialect or when Arabs speak Modern Standard Arabic. The main dialectal variations in Arabic consonants revolve around the six consonants ج , ق , ث , ذ , ض and ظ .
Arabic heavily influenced it and has a more developed phonology. The dialect of Maaloula is somewhere in between the two, but closer to that of Jubb'adin. [citation needed] The cross-linguistic influence between Aramaic and Arabic has been mutual, as Syrian Arabic itself (and Levantine Arabic in general) retains an Aramaic substratum. [21]
Shawi or Šāwi Arabic is the Arabic dialect of the sheep-rearing Bedouins of Syro-Mesopotamia. [2] The term Šāwi typically refers to the tribes living between the Tigris and the Euphrates , but many tribes are also found elsewhere, such as northern Jordan , Palestine , western Syria , and Lebanon . [ 2 ]
Unlike most neighboring dialects the varieties of Yāfiʿ belong to the so-called "k-dialect" grouping, [2] meaning that the second person perfect suffixes retain the /-k/ found in the Sayhadic, Afrosemitic, and Modern South Arabian languages as opposed to the /-t/ found in most Arabic dialects. Before the 1990's the dialects of historical ...
Safaitic (Arabic: ٱلصَّفَائِيَّة Al-Ṣafāʾiyyah) is a variety of the South Semitic scripts used by the Arabs in southern Syria and northern Jordan in the Ḥarrah region, to carve rock inscriptions in various dialects of Old Arabic and Ancient North Arabian.