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. 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 LabialDental/AlveolarPalatalVelarPharyngealGlottalplainemph.NasalStop/Affricatevoiceless()voiced()Fricativevoicelessvoiced()TrillApproximant
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 FrontCentralBackClose Mid Open
/, / is typically heard as [, ] when in palatal consonant environments or when preceding most non emphatic consonants. It is heard as [, ] when in emphatic environments.
Media
Syrian historian Khayr al-Din al-Asadi's 1971 Comparative Encyclopedia of Aleppo () contained 50,000 definitions of words found in Aleppine Arabic.
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