Levantine Arabic

Arabic variety spoken in the Levant Levantine ArabicSyro-Palestinian Arabicشامي (Shami)Native toSyria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, TurkeyRegionLevantEthnicityPrimarily Arabs Also used as a first or second language by some other ethnic groups in the region. SpeakersTotal: 60 million (2008–2024)L1: 58 million L2: 2.9 millionLanguage familyAfro-Asiatic SemiticWest SemiticCentral SemiticArabianArabicLevantine ArabicDialects Cilician Aleppine Damascene Lebanese Palestinian Jordanian Writing system Arabic alphabet Latin script (Arabizi and Said Akl's alphabet) Hebrew alphabet (in Israel) Language codesISO 639-3apcGlottolognort3139Linguasphere"Syro-Palestinian" 12-AAC-eh "Syro-Palestinian"IETFapcModern distribution of Levantine ArabicThis article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. and احنا‎ appearing as two different characters. If so, apply this custom style in your user settings: [lang=apc] { font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma; } . This article includes inline links to audio files. If you have trouble pl