Damascus Arabic
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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]
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Damascus Arabic | |
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Arabic: اللهجِة الشاميِّة | |
Native to | Syria |
Native speakers | 1.6 million (2004)[1] |
Arabic alphabet Arabic chat alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | (covered by apc) |
IETF | apc-u-sd-sydi |
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