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Cypriot Maronite Arabic |
| Cypriot Maronite Arabic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Cyprus | |
| Total speakers: | 1,300 (1995) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Cypriot Maronite Arabic |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| Official status | ||
| Official language in: | none | |
| Regulated by: | none | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | acy | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Cypriot Maronite Arabic (also known as Cypriot Arabic, Maronite, Sanna) is one of the most divergent of Arabic varieties, spoken by Maronites in Cyprus. Most speakers are in Nicosia, but others are in the communities in Kormakiti (140) and Limassol (80-100). All speakers are over 30 years of age.1 Brought to the island by Maronites fleeing Lebanon at least 700 years ago, this variety of Arabic has been very heavily influenced by Greek in both phonology and vocabulary, while retaining certain unusually archaic features in other respects.
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