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 /d͡ʒ/ instead of the typical urban /ʒ/ used in Damascus Arabic and in Lebanese Arabic. It agrees with Lebanese Arabic with its usage of medial imāla which often turns /aː/ into /eː/. Also has /t͡ʃ/, which is not typical of urban Levantine dialects.
Consonants
- Other sounds /p, v, ɡ/ appear in loanwords.
- /t, tˤ/, /d, dˤ/ are phonetically dental [t̪, t̪ˤ], [d̪, d̪ˤ].
- /k/ may also be articulated as post-palatal [c̠], as can /ɡ/ as [ɟ̠] from loanwords.
- Although the dialect pronounces the Old Arabic reflex /q/* as a glottal stop /ʔ/, a uvular /q/ may also be heard in loanwords from Standard Arabic. It may also commonly be pronounced as an emphatic glottal stop [ʔˤ].
Vowels
- /a, aː/ is typically heard as [æ, æː] when in palatal consonant environments or when preceding most non emphatic consonants. It is heard as [ɒ, ɒː] when in emphatic environments.
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