Languages

Levantine Arabic

Language

Citation Formats

General Reference

Language Atlas. "Levantine Arabic." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/levantine-arabic.

APA Style

Language Atlas. (n.d.). Levantine Arabic. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/levantine-arabic

BibTeX

@misc{languageatlas-levantine-arabic,
  author = {Language Atlas},
  title = {Levantine Arabic},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-language.interactiveatlas.org/languages/levantine-arabic},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

ISO 639-3 Code

apc 1

Speaker Count

60,000,000 1

Ethnologue total figure, 2008-2024.

Region

The Levant (Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Turkey) 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

In Family

Afro-Asiatic

Source Wikipedia: Levantine Arabic

In the Other Atlases

Also in Geography Atlas: The Levant, located there.

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Levantine Arabic

Wikimedia FoundationLead section

Quote, Lead section

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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1. Wikipedia: Levantine Arabic

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