Çukurova Arabic

Çukurova Arabic
Native to	Turkey
Native speakers	no data[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Levantine Arabic North Levantine Arabic Çukurova Arabic; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	cili1234

Cilician Arabic, Cilicia-Antioch Arabic or 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.

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