Syrian Arabic

Syrian Arabic
Syrian Arabic
Native to	Syria
Ethnicity	Syrians
Native speakers	L1: 19 million (2023) ; L2: 2.0 million (2023)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Syrian Arabic; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet; Arabic chat alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(covered by apc)
IETF	apc-SY

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Syrian Arabic refers to any of the Arabic varieties spoken in Syria,^[2] or specifically to Levantine Arabic.^[3]^[4]

^ ^a ^b Syrian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^ Behnstedt, Peter (2011-05-30). "Syria". Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics.
^ Stowasser, Karl (2004). A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic: English-Arabic. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-105-2. OCLC 54543156.
^ Cowell, Mark W. (1964). A Reference Grammar of Syrian Arabic. Georgetown University Press. OCLC 249229002.