South Levantine Arabic
South Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية) is a subdivision of Levantine Arabic. It is spoken in the Southern Levant, mostly the Palestinian Territories (the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip) and Israel, as well as in most of Jordan (in the ‘Ajlun, Al Balqa’, Al Karak, Al Mafraq, ‘Amman, Irbid, Jarash, and Madaba governorates).[2] It is also spoken in Southern Syria, particularly in the Hauran region of Daraa Governorate. South Levantine Arabic is further subdivided in Jordanian Arabic and Palestinian Arabic.
| South Levantine Arabic | |
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| اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية | |
| Native to | Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Syria |
| Speakers | 13 million (2019)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| ISO 639-3 | (covered by apc) |
| Glottolog | sout3123 |
| IETF | apc |
 South Levantine | |
References
- South Levantine Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Jordan and Syria in Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2022). Ethnologue: Languages of the World (25th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Levantine Arabic
For a list of words relating to South Levantine Arabic, see the South Levantine Arabic language category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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