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, Lebanon, also has an accent very similar to that found in Aleppo.

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic	Ancient North Arabian Classical

Modern literary	Modern Standard Arabic Maltese

Maghreb	Algerian Andalusian Darija Hassānīya Jebli Jijel Libyan Maltese Moroccan Saharan Sicilian Tunisian

Levant	Bedawi Cypriot Jordanian Lebanese North Syrian Palestinian Syrian

Mesopotamia	Mesopotamian North Mesopotamian

Arabian Peninsula	Arabian Gulf Yemeni

Nile Valley	Egyptian Sa'idi Sudanese

Peripheral	Central Asian Chadian Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic	Judeo-Iraqi Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian Judeo-Yemeni

Creoles and pidgins	Babalia Juba Nubi Maridi Turku

Italics indicate extinct languages.

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