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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Three scientific papers concluded, using various natural language processing techniques, that Levantine dialects (and especially Palestinian) were the closest colloquial varieties, in terms of lexical similarity, to Modern Standard Arabic: Harrat et al. (2015, comparing MSA to two Algerian dialects, Tunisian, Palestinian, and Syrian), [32] El ...
Judeo-Syrian Arabic, also called Syrian Judeo-Arabic, is a dialect of the Judeo-Arabic dialects based on Syrian Arabic. It was traditionally written in the Hebrew script. It was traditionally written in the Hebrew script.
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]
Syrian Arabic: The dialect of Damascus and the dialect of Aleppo are well-known. [1]Lebanese Arabic: North Lebanese, South Lebanese (Metuali, Shii), North-Central Lebanese (Mount Lebanon Arabic), South-Central Lebanese (Druze Arabic), Standard Lebanese, Beqaa, Sunni Beiruti, Saida Sunni, Iqlim-Al-Kharrub Sunni, Jdaideh [1]
The Syrian Druze are Arabic in language and culture, and their mother tongue is the Arabic Language. The Druze Arabic dialect, especially in the rural areas, is often different from the other regional Syrian Arabic dialects. Druze Arabic dialect is distinguished from others by retention of the phoneme /qāf/. [36]