South Levantine Arabic (Arabic:اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية,romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya l-janūbiyya,South Levantine:il-lahje š-šāmiyye l-jnūbiyye) was defined in theISO 639-3 international standard for language codes as a distinctArabic variety, under theajp code. It was reported byEthnologue as being spoken in theSouthern Levant:Palestine (theWest Bank, includingEast Jerusalem, and theGaza Strip),Israel, and most ofJordan (in theAjlun,Al Balqa,Al Karak,Al Mafraq,Amman,Irbid,Jarash, andMadaba governorates).[1][2]
In 2023, South Levantine Arabic andNorth Levantine Arabic were merged into a singleLevantine Arabic in the ISO,[3] 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.[4]
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