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	Eastern (Levantine) Arabic
		Eastern, or Levantine, Arabic is a general term that covers a continuum of spoken dialects along the Eastern Mediterranean Coast in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel.
		Levantine Arabic is rarely written, since Modern Standard Arabic is normally used for written communication, although it is occasionally used for captions in cartoons, and transcriptions of spoken language, such as songs, plays, and dialogs.
		Arabic is a Category III language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/august/LevantineArabic.html (927 words)

	Lebanese Arabic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lebanese or Lebanese Arabic is the colloquial form of Arabic spoken in Lebanon.
		Lebanese is considered to be a part of the Levantine dialects of Arabic, spoken around Lebanon and Syria.
		"Coffee" is "qahwa" in Arabic, and "ah-way" in Spoken Lebanese.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lebanese_Arabic (566 words)

	Arabic Language Facts
		The expressions Arabic and Classical Arabic usually refer to the pure Arabic language which is, according to Arabic speakers, both the language of present-day media across North Africa and the Middle East (from Morocco to Iraq) and the language of the Qur'an.
		While Arabic is strongly associated with Islam (and is the language of salat), it is also spoken by Arab Christians, Oriental Jews, and indeed Iraqi Mandaeans; and, of course, the vast majority of the world's Muslims do not actually speak it; they only know some fixed phrases of Arabic, as used in Islamic prayer.
		Arabic is a Semitic language, fairly closely related to, for instance, the Hebrew language and the Aramaic language.
	www.languagehelpers.com /languagefacts/arabic.html (664 words)

	Levantine Arabic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Levantine Arabic is a general designation used for a continuum of dialects spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel.
		Levantine Arabic is written only in a limited number of contexts, such as in political cartoons, in advertising, in song lyrics and plays, and occasionally in informal correspondence and dialog in fiction.
		Arabic (Standard Arabic) is the official language of all the Arab countries of the region, and it is one of the two official languages alongside Hebrew in Israel, where Arabic is spoken by about 20% of the population.
	www.fizzylogic.com /users/bulbul/lmp/profiles/levantine-arabic.html (1258 words)

	Egyptian Arabic
		Arabic is originally the language of the nomadic tribes of the northern and central regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
		Arabic of the pre-Classical period is found in inscriptions of central and northwestern Arabia, with Classical Arabic itself appearing in inscriptions dating from at least the fourth century.
		Arabic is a Semitic language of the Arabo-Canaanite subgroup (Ruhlen 1987).
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/arabic.htm (1759 words)

	Arabic Language History
		The rise of Arabic to the status of a major world language is inextricably intertwined with the rise of Islam as a major world religion.
		Before the appearance of Islam, Arabic was a minor member of the southern branch of the Semitic language family, used by a small number of largely nomadic tribes in the Arabian peninsula, with an extremely poorly documented textual history.
		In Arabic, the subject of a sentence would be identified by the vowel "u" placed at the end of the word, and it would remain the subject regardless of where it was positioned in the sentence.
	www.indiana.edu /~arabic/arabic_history.htm (5852 words)

	Information on Languages-Arabic from Nettranslation
		Arabic is a "Diglossic" language referring to a situation where two distinct language varieties are in use by a single population.
		The dialects in colloquial Arabic are so diverse that even native speakers of Arabic may have difficulty understanding Arabs from neighbouring countries, or in extreme cases: neighbouring villages.
		Though MSA is indeed the standard written language of most Arabic countries, it is necessary to identify the Arabic-speaking country or community for which a translation is intended.
	www.nettprofile.com /resources_about_language_arabic.htm (958 words)

	Top 20 Arabic
		The term "Arabic" may refer either to literary Arabic, which no Arab speaks as a mother tongue, or Modern Standard Arabic or to the many spoken varieties of Arabic commonly called "colloquial Arabic." Arabs consider literary Arabic as the standard language and tend to view everything else as mere dialects.
		The sociolinguistic situation of Arabic in modern times provides a prime example of the linguistic phenomenon of Diglossia -the normal use of two separate varieties of the same language, usually in different social situations.
		Since the written Arabic of today differs substantially from the written Arabic of the Qur'anic era, it has become customary in western scholarship and among non-Arab scholars of Arabic to refer to the language of the Qur'an as Classical Arabic and the modern language of the media and of formal speeches as Modern Standard Arabic.
	top20arabic.com (2713 words)

	Arabic classes in San Francisco - Pacific Arabic language school
		An avid linguaphile since childhood, Jamal's love for the Arabic language began at Hofstra University under the tutelage of Dr.
		Jamal continued his Arabic studies at New York University and the United Nations Language Training Institute, and studied translation theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
		She began her Arabic studies at Emory University where she had the privilege to study with Mahmoud al-Batal and Kristen Brustad.
	www.pacificarabic.com /our_people.html (1142 words)

	Books and cassettes for Learning Arabic: dictionaries, translating, portals, radio, tv
		Colloquial Eastern (Levantine) Arabic is spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.
		Colloquial Egyptian Arabic is used in some literature, on Egyptian TV (available by satellite in many countries) by a movie industry based in Egypt and in some movies seen throughout much of the Arab world.
		This is the Arabic spoken in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.
	www.touniteamerica.com /languages/arabic.shtml (1527 words)

	Ethnologue: Israel
		South Levantine Arabic is used as second language.
		ARABIC, JUDEO-MOROCCAN [AJU] 250,000 in Israel (1992 H. Mutzafi); 18,000 in Morocco (1985 J. Chetrit); 268,000 in all countries.
		ARABIC, JUDEO-TUNISIAN [AJT] 45,000 in Israel (1995 H. Mutzafi); 500 in Tunisia (1994); 50,000 in all countries.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Isra.html (1868 words)

	Learn Arabic - Arabic Books, Tapes, Courses, and Software
		Each Arabic word or sentence or expression is taught with a transliteration in English, the meaning written in English, an audio recording of it in Iraqi Arabic, and the written version of it in Iraqi Arabic.
		The FSI Saudi Arabic Basic Course teaches the Urban Hijazi Dialect of Arabic, the most widely spoken and understood dialect on the Arabian Peninsula and the language of government and commerce.
		This is a grammar-based course that teaches spoken Egyptian Arabic though structured lessons, with each lesson including a series of spoken drills that reinforce the grammar, and a short spoken conversational dialogue that illustrates the grammar in action.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /arabic.html (3700 words)

	Levantine Arabic for Non-Natives: A Proficiency-Oriented Approach
		This textbook is for beginning students of Arabic who are seeking to develop communicative oral skills in colloquial Levantine Arabic, the dialect used in Jerusalem and in contemporary Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel.
		The first half of the teacher's manual is devoted to a series of "functions" that focus on specific spoken activities, such as greetings, identifying objects, or asking for information.
		Levantine Arabic may be used as the primary text for a course designed exclusively to teach colloquial Arabic, or in conjunction with beginning and intermediate courses in Modern Standard Arabic.
	yalepress.yale.edu /YupBooks/book.asp?isbn=0300056346 (203 words)

	Spoken or Colloquial Arabic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Colloquial Arabic" is a collective term for the spoken languages or dialects of people throughout the Arab world which differ radically from the literary language.
		North Levantine â“ spoken in Lebanon and Syria â“ approx.
		This table shows Arabic dialects and where they are spoken.
	www.appliedlanguage.com /languages/arabic/spoken_arabic.shtml (297 words)

	The Arabic Language
		It does not matter if the believer is Arabic, Malaysian, Chinese, or Russian; it is incumbent on them to perform their recitations from the original text.
		Classical Arabic, like its modern descendants (Levantine Arabic, Palatine Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, and so on), is a Semitic language—the same language family that includes Hebrew, the languages of Mesopotamia (with the exception of Sumerian), and other partly Semitic languages, such as Ethiopian.
		The reason Arabic didn't change drastically from its most primitive forms is that Arabic society tended to remain centered in small groups.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/ISLAM/ARABIYYA.HTM (919 words)

	Population Analysis of the Arabic Languages
		This is the report of the results of an investigation to determine how many languages of the Arabic family a resource would need to be in to cover 90% of the people.
		It is also notable that Libyan Arabic, and its associated dialects (including Northwest Egyptian Bedawi) does not have sufficient speakers to rank in the top group, having a total of 4.5 million speakers.
		It is an amalgam of Delta Arabic and Middle Egypt Arabic, with borrowings from literary Arabic.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/articles/arabicpercent.html (1742 words)

	Linguistics Language Program - LING 19
		Arabic is a Semitic language belonging to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages which includes Berber; Chadic (including Hausa); Cushitic (including Somali); and Ancient Egyptian.
		Spoken Arabic differs (often substantially) from country to country and even from town to town, however the presence of a standard form and a common written language, serve to unify what would otherwise be a group of distinct languages.
		Egyptian Arabic is spoken as a first language primarily in Egypt, but Cairene Arabic (the dialect of Egyptian Arabic spoken in Cairo), is widely understood throughout much of the urbanized Arabic-speaking world.
	ling.ucsd.edu /courses/ling19/ling19langdis/arabic.htm (405 words)

	Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Courses
		Arabic 380C (Topic 6) and 380K (Topic 6: Levantine Arabic II) may not both be counted.
		Arabic 380K and 384C may not both be counted unless the topics vary.
		Arabic classical and modern sources on a variety of subjects, as well as modern scholarship in Arabic studies both in the West and in the Arab world.
	www.utexas.edu /student/registrar/catalogs/gradcat/ch4/la/mel.crs.html (1827 words)

	Arabic Self Learning Courses
		Pimsleur Arabic Language program is an efficient audio training system (cassette or compact disc) designed to teach spoken Arabic language communication skills to English speakers within a very short period of training.
		The second edition of this course in Arabic of Egypt for beginners has been completely revised and updated to make learning Arabic of Egypt easier and more enjoyable than ever before.
		Instant Immersion Arabic was developed and recorded by a team of professors and acclaimed translators who offer a plenary approach to learning this historic language.
	www.orbislingua.com /ebfj.htm (429 words)

	U-Michigan SLI - Arabic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This sequence is equivalent to one year of Arabic study.
		This sequence is recommended for students and members of the community who have completed at least one semester of Arabic study and wish to continue their Arabic study for communication purposes.
		This sequence is offered to students and members of the community who wish to continue Arabic study for professional and career purposes.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/sli/Arabic05.htm (278 words)

	Five College Center for the Study of World Languages
		The course guides and syllabi for Arabic are online on the Five College Center for the Study of World Language's LangMedia website.
		Arabic I will also have a slightly longer conversation session because it will be a larger group than usual.
		Prerequisite: Levantine Colloquial Arabic I or the equivalent.
	www.umass.edu /fclang/mentored_arabic.html (1345 words)

	Contact Syrian Colloquial
		I decided to learn Arabic a week ago and was appalled to see how few resources were available on the internet if compared to (as you do in the preface to the book) Chinese or Japanese.
		I was happy to find your course Syrian Arabic on the internet...Thank you for making the book available to the general public.
		It is one of the best Arabic learning resources I've come upon and I find it very useful and easy to use.
	www.syrianarabic.com /contact.html (1269 words)

	Dana International :: Arabic
		She uses a mix of Egyptian and Levantine Arabic – quite different from the dialect used in Yemen.
		Her Arabic is mostly based on Egyptian and Lebanese pop songs, the Friday night Arabic films (mostly Egyptian) showed on Israeli TV (and incidentally very popular in Israel) and Palestinian slang.
		When reading Dana's Arabic lyrics translated to English – try to read them like people would have seen them in the 1950s or 60s to come close to how they are understood in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia today.
	www.phreak.co.uk /dana/danasarabic.html (823 words)

	ARABIC (ARBx)
		Conversational Levantine Arabic (3) I Extensive oral drill with emphasis on the acquisition of facility in normal conversation and comprehension.
		Conversational Gulf Arabic (3) I Extensive oral drill with emphasis on the acquisition of facility in normal conversation and comprehension.
		Introduction to Arabic Linguistics (3) II History and structure of the Arabic language in its various forms.
	catalog.arizona.edu /courses/984/ARBx.html (663 words)

	Arabic - language.com.au - Arabic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since most of the sounds of Levantine Arabic also occur in other Arabic dialects, the course can also be used in the study of those dialects.
		This practical course in everyday Arabic as it is used in the area extending from Basra in Southern Iraq, through Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, The UAE to Oman.
		Requiring no previous knowledge of Arabic, the course is ideal for anyone seeking to develop a sound command of contemporary Gulf Arabic whether studying independently or with a teacher.
	www.language.com.au /arabic.html (746 words)

	Modern Languages: Arabic Division
		She has taught foreign languages for non-native speakers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, the Florida State University and the American University of Beirut, Lebanon (French and/or Arabic) for 15 years.
		She is currently in charge of the Arabic Language Program at FSU and is the academic advisor for the BA Degree in Middle Eastern Studies.
		She was the Director for the Summer Arabic Language Program at American University of Beirut from 2000-2003 and is currently the Associate Director of the newly established Middle East Center at FSU.
	www.fsu.edu /~modlang/divisions/arabic/faculty.html (169 words)

	Ethnologue: Palestinian West Bank and Gaza
		Recognized by the United Nations during the interim period, based on the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles of 1993.
		(LEVANTINE ARABIC, PALESTINIAN-JORDANIAN ARABIC) [AJP] 1,600,000 in Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (1996); 6,155,000 in all countries.
		The language ceased to be spoken as mother tongue in the 10th to 12th centuries A.D. They use Samaritan Hebrew mainly and Samaritan Aramaic secondarily as liturgical languages.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Pale.html (263 words)

	Guidelines for Transcribing Levantine Arabic: MSA-based Transcription
		These Guidelines currently focus on Levantine Arabic, which will be the first dialect to be transcribed using the Transcription Tool.
		And because the glottal stop is elided in Levantine Arabic, the alif chair is not written).
		Words that are not attested in MSA should be transcribed as expected in MSA, but according to Levantine orthography.
	www.ldc.upenn.edu /Projects/EARS/Arabic/Guidelines_Levantine_MSA.htm (2738 words)

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