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 is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two prestige varieties of spoken Arabic comprehensible all over the Arab world.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountEthnologue total figure, 2008-2024. StatusWikipedia article on Levantine Arabic: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionThe Levant (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Turkey) 2 Classification
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Levantine Arabic, also called Shami (autonym: شامي, šāmi or اللهجة الشامية, el-lahje š-šāmiyye), is an Arabic variety spoken in the Levant, namely in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and southern Turkey.
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1. Glottolog: Levantine Arabic (Glottolog languoid nort3139)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Levantine Arabic
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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 is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two prestige varieties of spoken Arabic comprehensible all over the Arab world.
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Levantine Arabic, also called Shami (autonym: شامي, šāmi or اللهجة الشامية, el-lahje š-šāmiyye), is an Arabic variety spoken in the Levant, namely in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and southern Turkey.
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it is not officially recognized as a separate language
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Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > West Semitic > Central Semitic > Arabian > Arabic > Levantine Arabic
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Arabic alphabet
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Latin script
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