Cilician Arabic
Appearance
Çukurova Arabic | |
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Native to | Turkey |
Native speakers | no data[1] |
Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Cilician Arabic, Cilicia-Antioch Arabicor Çukurova Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in Turkey. It is a variety of North Levantine Arabic spoken by Alawi communities in the geo-cultural area of Cilicia, the coastal region of the Turkish Eastern Mediterranean from Hatay to Mersin and Adana.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Cilicia-Antioch Arabic". Glotto. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
- ^ Procházka-Eisl, Gisela; Procházka, Stephan (2018). "The Arabic speaking Alawis of the Çukurova: The transformation of a linguistic into a purely religious minority". In Bulut, Christiane (ed.). Linguistic minorities in Turkey and Turkic-speaking minorities of the periphery. Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 309-328. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
- ^ "Anatolian Arabic". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-28.