Mashriqi Arabic
| Mashriqi Arabic | |
|---|---|
| ʿAmmiya | |
| Region | Mashriq |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Arabic alphabet, Latin alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | nort3191 |
Mashriqi Arabic (Eastern Arabic), or Mashriqi 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. The variety is sometimes referred to as Eastern Arabic, as opposed to Western Arabic (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.
Modern Standard Arabic (الفصحى (al-)fushā) is the primary language used in the government, legislation and judiciary of countries in the Mashreq. 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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