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Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية‎ al-lahjah aš-šāmiyyah) is a broad dialect of Arabic spoken in the 100 to 200 km-wide Eastern Mediterranean coastal strip. It is considered one of the five major varieties of Arabic. In the frame of the general diglossia status of the Arab world Levantine Arabic is used for daily spoken use while most of the written and official documents and media use Modern Standard Arabic.

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family
Arabic language, Semitic languages, Central Semitic languages
spoken in
Levant

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