Eastern Arabic
| Mashriqi | |
|---|---|
| ʿAmmiya | |
| Geographic distribution |
Mashriq |
| Linguistic classification |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Glottolog | nort3191 |
Mashriqi Arabic, or ʿAmmiya, is the varieties of Arabic spoken in the Mashriq, including the countries of Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Syria and Iraq.Eastern Arabic is known also as Mashriqi Arabic (as opposed to the Western Arabic known as Maghrebi Arabic) and includes Mesopotamian Arabic and Gulf Arabic, along with Levantine Arabic. Speakers of Mashriqi call their language ʿAmmiya, which means "dialect" in Modern Standard Arabic.
Mashriqi Arabic is used for almost all spoken communication, as well as in television dramas and on advertising boards in Egypt and Lebanon, but Modern Standard Arabic (الفصحى (al-)fuṣ-ḥā) is used for written communication. In Lebanon, where Mashriqi Arabic as a colloquial language was taught as a separate subject under French colonization, some textbooks exist.
The varieties of Masheiqi have a significant degree of mutual intelligibility, specially between geographically adjacent ones (such as Lebanese and Syrian or between Iraqi and Kuwaiti). Conversely, Darija is very hard to understand for Arabic-speakers from the Maghreb, as it derives from different substrata.
It is widely spoken in countries west of Iran and east of Saudi Arabia, such as in Iraq and Kuwait. It is somewhat different from Saudi Arabic or Egyptian Arabic and Western Arabic.[1]
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