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Levantine Arabic  

Definition

  • Levantine Arabic, also called Shami, is an Arabic variety spoken in the Levant, namely in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and southern Turkey. With over 60 million speakers, Levantine Arabic is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two prestige varieties of spoken Arabic comprehensible all over the Arab world. Levantine Arabic falls under the Semitic sub-branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Identifier

  • APC

Notation

  • apc

In other languages

  • شامي

    Arabic

  • левантински арабски

    Bulgarian

  • istočni arapski

    Croatian

  • levantská arabština

    Czech

  • levantinsk arabisk

    Danish

  • Levantijns-Arabisch

    Dutch

  • Levandi araabia keel

    Estonian

  • levantinarabia

    Finnish

  • arabe levantin

    French

  • levantinisches Arabisch

    German

  • λεβαντίνικα αραβικά

    Greek

  • levantei arab

    Hungarian

  • Araibis Leiveantach

    Irish

  • arabo levantino

    Italian

  • arābu valoda (levantiešu)

    Latvian

  • Levanto arabų

    Lithuanian

  • Għarbi Levantin

    Maltese

  • arabski syryjsko-palestyński

    Polish

  • árabe levantino

    Portuguese

  • arabă levantină

    Romanian

  • levantská arabčina

    Slovak

  • levantinska arabščina

    Slovenian

  • árabe levantino

    Spanish

  • levantinsk arabiska

    Swedish

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/APC

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