Levantine Arabic

Arabic variety spoken in the Levant

Levantine Arabic, also called Shami (autonym: شامي, šāmi or اللهجة الشامية, el-lahje š-šāmiyye), 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. In Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine, Levantine is the primary language and is commonly spoken in daily life.

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