Aleppo Arabic | |
Also Known As: | Aleppine Arabic |
Nativename: | Arabic: اللهجة الحلبية |
States: | Syria |
Familycolor: | Afroasiatic |
Fam2: | Semitic |
Fam3: | Central Semitic |
Fam4: | Arabic |
Fam5: | Levantine Arabic |
Listclass: | hlist |
Script: | Arabic alphabet Arabic chat alphabet |
Glotto: | alep1241 |
Glottorefname: | Aleppo |
Iso3comment: | (covered by apc) |
Iso3: | none |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Notice: | IPA |
Map: | Levantine Arabic 2022.svg |
Aleppo Arabic or Aleppine Arabic is the urban Arabic variety spoken in the city of Aleppo.
Aleppo Arabic is characterised by the usage of /d͡ʒ/ instead of the typical urban /ʒ/ used in Damascus Arabic and in Lebanese Arabic.[1] It agrees with Lebanese Arabic with its usage of medial imāla which often turns /a:/ into /e:/. Also has /t͡ʃ/, which is not typical of urban Levantine dialects.[2]