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Levantine Arabic

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 31, 2022 by Gog the Mild (talk) 18:01, 16 April 2022 (UTC)



Levantine Arabic is a group of mutually intelligible vernacular Arabic varieties spoken in the Levant, in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, and Turkey. With over 44 million speakers, Levantine is, alongside Egyptian, one of the two prestige varieties of spoken Arabic comprehensible all over the Arab world. It is also the closest vernacular Arabic variety to the official Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), with about 50% of common words. Nevertheless, Levantine and MSA are not mutually intelligible. Levantine speakers often call their language 'slang' or 'colloquial'. With the emergence of social media, attitudes toward Levantine have improved. The amount of written Levantine has significantly increased, especially online, where Levantine is written using Arabic, Latin, or Hebrew characters. Levantine pronunciation varies greatly along social, ethnic, and geographical lines. Its grammar and lexicon are overwhelmingly Arabic, with a significant Aramaic influence.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts (2020, latest TFA about linguistics), BASL (2016, latest TFA about a [signed] language), Nafaanra (2011, latest TFA about a spoken language), Turkish (2007, latest TFA about a "big"/vital article language)
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 * Promoted: April 15th 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: Only 0.2% of FA are about "Language and linguistics" (source). It's my first FA and TFA request. Vital article Level 5.
 * Support as nominator. A455bcd9 (talk) 19:27, 15 April 2022 (UTC)