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Arabic manuals for the "Syrian dialect" were produced in the early 20th century, [10] and in 1909 a specific "Palestinian Arabic" manual was published in Jerusalem for Western travelers. Palestinian Arabic is a variant of Levantine Arabic because its dialects display characteristic Levantine features:
South Levantine Arabic, spoken in Palestine between Nazareth and Bethlehem, in the Syrian Hauran mountains, and in western Jordan and Israel. Tafkhim is nonexistent there, and imala affects only the feminine ending /-ah/ > [e] after front consonants (and not even in Gaza where it remains /a/ ), while /ʃitaː/ is [ʃɪta] .
A Dictionary of Syrian Arabic: English-Arabic. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-105-2. OCLC 54543156. Tiedemann, Fridrik E. (26 March 2020). The Most Used Verbs in Spoken Arabic: Jordan & Palestine (4th ed.). Amman: Great Arabic Publishing. ISBN 978-1734460407.
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 (historically only in Adana, Mersin and Hatay provinces).
In ancient and medieval times, many other languages had also been spoken in Palestine for ceremonial purposes or otherwise, including Latin and other Italic languages, French, Germanic languages, Classical Arabic and Greek. However, they gradually faded away along with geopolitical shifts and the end of feudalism.
Pronunciation: / ˈ p æ l ɪ s t aɪ n / PAL-ist-eyen Common English country names: State of Palestine; Palestine Official English country name: U.S. State Department: Palestinian Territories ; E.U. ISO 3166-2: Palestine, State of ; UN-affiliated organizations: Palestine, State of
Three scientific papers concluded, using various natural language processing techniques, that Levantine dialects (and especially Palestinian) were the closest colloquial varieties, in terms of lexical similarity, to Modern Standard Arabic: Harrat et al. (2015, comparing MSA to two Algerian dialects, Tunisian, Palestinian, and Syrian), [32] El ...
Modern Palestinian Judeo-Arabic (MPJA) is a variety of Palestinian and Moroccan [citation needed] Arabic that was spoken by the Old Yishuv in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, and currently by a few Israeli Jews in Israel. It was once spoken by around 10,000 speakers in the 20th century. [1]