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North Levantine Arabic (Arabic:اللهجة الشامية الشمالية,romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya š-šamāliyya,North Levantine:el-lahje š-šāmiyye š-šmāliyye) was defined in theISO 639-3 international standard for language codes as a distinctArabic variety, under theapc code. It was also known asSyro-Lebanese Arabic,[1] though that term was also used to refer to allLevantine Arabic varieties.[2]
It was reported byEthnologue as stemming from the north of the Levant inTurkey (specifically the coastal regions of theAdana,Hatay, andMersin provinces)[1][3] toLebanon,[4][1] passing through the Mediterranean coastal regions ofSyria (theLatakia andTartus governorates) as well as the areas surroundingAleppo andDamascus.[1][5]
In 2023,South Levantine Arabic and North Levantine Arabic were merged into a single Levantine Arabic in the ISO,[6] based on the highmutual intelligibility between Arabic varieties spoken by sedentary populations across the Levant and the lack of clear distinctions between variants along national borders.[7]
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