Anatolian Arabic

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Anatolian Arabic
لهجات عربية أناضولية
Native toTurkey
Native speakers
520,000 (2014)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologanat1256
ELPSiirti Arabic

Anatolian Arabic encompasses several

Turoyo (the latter in the western dialect area).[3]

The Mardin dialect is mutually intelligible with the Moslawi dialect of Iraq. However, the peripheral varieties in the Siirt, Muş, and Batman provinces near Lake Van are quite divergent.

Hatay, and Mersin provinces.[citation needed] Anatolian Arabic is not mutually intelligible with the Urfa dialect.[3]

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Interdental Dental/Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
plain emph. plain emph.
Nasal m
n
voiceless
p
t
t͡ʃ k q ʔ
voiced
b
d
d͡ʒ ɡ
Fricative
voiceless
f θ s ʃ x ħ h
voiced
v* ð ðˤ z ʒ* ɣ ʕ
Trill
r
Approximant
l
ɫ
j w

Vowels

Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid ə
Open a
  • /i, u/ may also be lowered as [ɪ, ʊ] when preceding a back (velar, uvular, pharyngeal, glottal) consonant.[3]

References

  1. ^ Anatolian Arabic at Ethnologue (23rd ed., 2020) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Anatolian Arabic". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. ^ .

Further reading