1. Family: Afro-Asiatic
  2. Genus: Semitic

Arabic (Lebanese)

WALS coordinates: 34° N, 36° E

spoken in Lebanon

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Arabic (Eastern)
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Levantine Arabic,
    • Lebanese-Syrian Arabic,
    • Lebanese Arabic
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Fixed Stress Locations No fixed stress
    Weight-Sensitive Stress Right-oriented: One of the last three
    Weight Factors in Weight-Sensitive Stress Systems Long vowel or coda consonant
    Lexicon
    Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 6
    Number of Basic Colour Categories 11
    Green and Blue Green vs. blue
    Red and Yellow Red vs. yellow
    Other
    Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Logical meanings