North Syrian Arabic

North Syrian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة السورية الشمالية‎) is a variety of Arabic spoken in Northern Syria. The dialect is spoken in a region extending from the city of Aleppo westward into the Idlib Governorate. It is a variant of Levantine Arabic. North Syrian Arabic is similar to general Syrian or North Levantine Arabic with few distinctions in phonology and morphology. Like other dialects of Arabic, North Syrian Arabic exhibits marked regional va... more
top ↑

Similar topics in Freebase

  • Arabic language

    Arabic language

    Arabic (العربية al-ʿarabīyah, ( Arabic pronunciation (help·info)) or عربي ʿarabi) is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages such as Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. In terms of speakers, Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language...
  • Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Language

    Sudanese Arabic is the variety of Arabic spoken throughout northern Sudan. It has much borrowed vocabulary from the local languages (El Rutana). This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the country has been influenced by both African and Arab...
  • Cypriot Maronite Arabic

    Cypriot Maronite Arabic (also known as Cypriot Arabic, Maronite, Sanna) is one of the most divergent of Arabic varieties, spoken by Maronites in Cyprus. Most speakers are in Nicosia, but others are in the communities in Kormakiti (140) and Limassol (80-100). All speakers are over 30 years of age....
  • Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic

    Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic (also known as South Yemeni Arabic) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in south Yemen and Djibouti. It is a variety of Yemeni Arabic.
  • Hejazi Arabic

    Hejazi Arabic (also known as Hijazi Arabic [ISO 639-3], West Arabian Arabic) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the western region of Saudi Arabia. Although, strictly speaking, there are two distinct dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the bedouins, and another by the urban...
  • Iraqi Arabic

    Iraqi Arabic (also known as Mesopotamian Arabic [ISO 639-3] or Furati, i.e. Euphrates, Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Mesopotamian basin of Iraq, from Baghdad south, as well as in neighboring Iran and eastern Syria. A distinction is recognised between Mesopotamian Qeltu Arabic and...
  • Egyptian Arabic

    Egyptian Arabic (مصرى Maṣrī; formally: اللغة المصرية العامية il-luɣa l-maṣriyya l-ʕammiyya in Egyptian Arabic) is a variety of the Arabic language of the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. It originated in the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt around the capital Cairo. Descended from the...
  • Chadian Arabic

    Chadian Arabic or Shuwa Arabic (also known as Arabe Choa, Shua Arabic, Shua, Chowa, Chad Arabic, Suwa, L'arabe du Tchad, Chadic Arabic, Baggara) is the variety of Arabic spoken primarily in Chad. It is the first language for nearly one million people in Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Sudan but...
  • Syrian Arabic

    Syrian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة السورية‎) is a Levantine variety of Arabic spoken in Syria and Lebanon. Syria has three major dialectal zones. Central from Damascus to Hama and North in the Aleppo region. Varieties of Syrian Arabic are spoken in these zones. In the East, mainly in Al-Hasakah, Ar...
  • Sanaani Arabic

    Sanaani Arabic (also known as North Yemeni Arabic) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in north Yemen. It is a variety of Yemeni Arabic.

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for North Syrian Arabic was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution