Aleppo Arabic

Aleppo Arabic
Aleppine Arabic
Arabic: اللهجة الحلبية
Native to	Syria
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabian Arabic Levantine-Cypriot Arabic Levantine Arabic [1] Aleppo Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet Arabic chat alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(covered by apc)
Glottolog	alep1241
North Levantine
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Aleppo Arabic or Aleppine Arabic is the urban Arabic variety spoken in the city of Aleppo.

Phonology

Aleppo Arabic is characterised by the usage of /d͡ʒ/ instead of the typical urban /ʒ/ used in Damascus Arabic and in Lebanese Arabic. ^[2] It agrees with Lebanese Arabic with its usage of medial imāla which often turns /aː/ into /eː/. Also has /t͡ʃ/, which is not typical of urban Levantine dialects. ^[3]

Consonants

		Labial	Dental/Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Pharyngeal	Glottal
			plain	emph.
Nasal		m	n
Stop/ Affricate	voiceless	( p )	t	tˤ	t͡ʃ	k		ʔ
	voiced	b	d	dˤ	d͡ʒ	( ɡ )
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	sˤ	ʃ	x	ħ	h
	voiced	( v )	z	zˤ		ɣ	ʕ
Trill			r
Approximant			l		j	w

• Other sounds / p , v , ɡ / appear in loanwords.
• / t , tˤ /, / d , dˤ / are phonetically dental [ t̪ , t̪ˤ ], [ d̪ , d̪ˤ ].
• / k / may also be articulated as post-palatal [ c̠ ], as can / ɡ / as [ ɟ̠ ] from loanwords.
• Although the dialect pronounces the Standard Arabic reflex / q /* as a glottal stop / ʔ /, a uvular / q / may also be heard in loanwords from Standard Arabic. It may also commonly be pronounced as an emphatic glottal stop [ ʔˤ ].

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː	ə	o oː
Open	a aː

• / a , aː / is typically heard as [ æ , æː ] when in palatal consonant environments or when preceding most non emphatic consonants. It is heard as [ ɒ , ɒː ] when in emphatic environments. ^[4]

References

1. "Glottolog 5.0 - Aleppo". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
2. Versteegh, Kees. Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics. Brill. pp. v2.494. ISBN   9004144730.
3. Versteegh, Kees. Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics. Brill. pp. v2.313. ISBN   9004144730.
4. Touma, Edy (2023). Comparative study of the communal variations in the dialect of Aleppo (with focus on that of the Syriac Quarter) with notes on the Aramaic substrate of the dialect. Uppsala University.