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Damascus Arabic
Arabic: اللهجِة الشاميِّة
Native to
Syria
Native speakers
1.6 million (2004)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Levantine Arabic
North Levantine Arabic
Damascus Arabic
Writing system
Arabic alphabet Arabic chat alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
(covered by apc)
IETF
apc-u-sd-sydi
North Levantine
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David speaking Syrian Arabic.
Damascus Arabic (llahže ššāmiyye) or Damascus Dialect is a North 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, as well as in Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan. Accordingly, in modern times it is sometimes known as Syrian Arabic or the Syrian Dialect; however, the former term may also be used to refer to the group of similar urban sedentary dialects of the Levant, or to mean Levantine Arabic in general.[2][3]
^Lentin, Jérôme (2006). Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Foreign Language Study. ISBN 9789004177024.
^Versteegh, Kees. Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics. Brill. pp. v1.492, v1.546, v1.604, v4.403–409. ISBN 9004144730.
^Cowell, Mark W. (2005). A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic (based on the Dialect of Damascus). Georgetown University Press. pp. xv, xvii. ISBN 1589010515 – via Google Books.
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