North Syrian Arabic

North Syrian Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة السورية الشمالية‎ / ALA-LC: al-lahjat as-Sūriyat ash-Shamāliyah) is the variety of Arabic spoken in northern Syria. This dialect is spoken mainly in the region of Aleppo. It is a variant of Levantine Arabic. Lebanon's most northern city of Tripoli, also has an accent very similar to that found in Aleppo.

References

A. Sabuni, Laut- und Formenlehre des Arabischen Dialekts von Aleppo, Heidelberger orientalistische Studien band 2 (Frankfurt am Main, 1980)
A. Barthelemy, Dictionnaire Arabe-Français. Dialectes de Syrie: Alep, Damas, Liban, Jérusalem (Paris, 1935)

Languages of Syria

Official language	Standard Arabic

Minority languages	Adyghe Afshar Arabic Bedawi Levantine Mesopotamian Najdi North Syrian Armenian Azerbaijani Domari Kurdish Turoyo

Sign languages	Levantine Arabic Sign Language

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic

Ancient North Arabian
- Dadanitic
- Oasis North Arabian
- Dumaitic
- Hasaitic
- Hismaic
- Safaitic
- Taymanitic
- Thamudic
Pre-classical

Modern literary

Peninsular

Northeastern	Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi

Western	Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin

Southern	Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihami Judeo-Yemeni

Northwestern	Bedouin

Eastern

Mesopotamian	North Mesopotamian Cypriot Maronite Anatolian Judeo-Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani

Central Asian	Afghani Khorasani Tajiki Uzbeki Qashqadaryan Bukharian

Levantine

North Levantine	North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese

South Levantine	Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern

Nilo-Egyptian

Western

Iberian

Andalusian

Maghrebi

Pre-Hilalian	Urban Eastern Village Sahel Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras-Msirda Mountain Jewish Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian

Hilalian	Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Central and Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya

Siculo-Arabic

Maltese
Sicilian

Undescribed

Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic

Creoles and pidgins

Italics indicate extinct languages.

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