Aleppo Arabic or Aleppine Arabic is the urban
Arabic variety spoken in the city of
Aleppo
Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...
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Phonology
Aleppo Arabic is characterised by the usage of /d͡ʒ/ instead of the typical urban /ʒ/ used in
Damascus Arabic and in
Lebanese Arabic
Lebanese Arabic ( ; autonym: ), or simply Lebanese ( ; autonym: ), is a Varieties of Arabic, variety of Levantine Arabic, indigenous to and primarily Languages of Lebanon, spoken in Lebanon, with significant linguistic influences borrowed from ...
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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.
Consonants
* Other sounds /, , / appear in loanwords.
* /, /, /, / are phonetically dental
* // may also be articulated as post-palatal [], as can // as [] from loanwords.
* Although the dialect pronounces the Standard Arabic reflex //* as a glottal stop //, a uvular // may also be heard in loanwords from Standard Arabic. It may also commonly be pronounced as an emphatic glottal stop [].
Vowels
* /, / is typically heard as [, ] when in palatal consonant environments or when preceding most non emphatic consonants. It is heard as [, ] when in emphatic environments.
References
Levantine Arabic
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