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Levantine Arabic

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 31, 2022 by Gog the Mild (talk) 18:01, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Distribution of North Levantine Arabic and South Levantine Arabic.
Distribution of North Levantine Arabic and South Levantine Arabic.

Levantine Arabic is a group of mutually intelligible vernacular Arabic varieties spoken in the Levant, in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Turkey. With over 44 million speakers, Levantine is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two prestige varieties of spoken Arabic comprehensible all over the Arab world. It is also the closest vernacular Arabic variety to the official Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), with about 50% of common words. Nevertheless, Levantine and MSA are not mutually intelligible. Levantine speakers often call their language 'slang' or 'colloquial' (‏العاميةal-ʿāmmiyya). With the emergence of social media, attitudes toward Levantine have improved. The amount of written Levantine has significantly increased, especially online, where Levantine is written using Arabic, Latin, or Hebrew characters. Levantine pronunciation varies greatly along social, ethnic, and geographical lines. Its grammar and lexicon are overwhelmingly Arabic, with a significant Aramaic influence. (Full article...)