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Name:
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
South Levantine Arabic; Arabic (Negev); Arabic; South Levantine Spoken; Arabic (Palestinian); Arabic (South Levantine Spoken); Levantine Arabic; Palestinian-Jordanian Arabic; Levantine; Bedawi
Spoken in:
Syria, Israel, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Egypt
Number of speakers:
3,500,000 in Jordan (1996). Population total all countries: 6,200,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
ajp
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Syro-Palestinian; Levantine (arsy)
Child Dialects:
Madani (ajp-mad)
Fellahi; FellahĖĢi (ajp-fel)

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