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 /dáÃÂ/ instead of the typical urban /ÃÂ/ used in Damascus Arabic and in Lebanese Arabic. It agrees with Lebanese Arabic with its usage of medial imÃÂla which often turns /aÃÂ/ into /eÃÂ/. Also has /táÃÂ/, which is not typical of urban Levantine dialects.
Consonants
- 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
- /, / is typically heard as [, ] when in palatal consonant environments or when preceding most non emphatic consonants. It is heard as [, ] when in emphatic environments.
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