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10 languages. العربية ... Syrian Arabic refers to any of the Arabic varieties spoken in Syria, [2] or specifically to Levantine Arabic. [3] [4] Aleppo, Idlib ...
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.
Before Arabic became the dominant language, Syriac was a major language among Christian communities in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Malabar Coast in India, [18] and remains so among the Syriac Christians to this day.
Even within countries where the official language is Arabic, different varieties of Arabic are spoken. For example, within Syria, the Arabic spoken in Homs is recognized as different from the Arabic spoken in Damascus, but both are considered to be varieties of "Levantine" Arabic.
The Arabic language (alongside Hebrew) also remained as an official language in the State of Israel for the first 70 years after the proclamation in 1948 until 2018. The Knesset canceled the status of Arabic as an official language by adopting the relevant Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People on 19 July 2018.
Levantine Arabic, also called Shami (autonym: شامي, šāmi or اللهجة الشامية, el-lahje š-šāmiyye), is an Arabic variety spoken in the Levant, namely in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and southern Turkey (historically only in Adana, Mersin and Hatay provinces).
The Syriac alphabet (ܐܠܦ ܒܝܬ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ ʾālep̄ bêṯ Sūryāyā [a]) is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language since the 1st century AD. [1] It is one of the Semitic abjads descending from the Aramaic alphabet through the Palmyrene alphabet, [2] and shares similarities with the Phoenician, Hebrew, Arabic and Sogdian, the precursor and a direct ancestor of the ...
The Syrian civil war is over, at least for now. ... but left that phrase out of the Hebrew-language announcement. ... Jolani's organization, known by its Arabic initials HTS, is also considered a ...