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Arab Syrian Lebanese Palestinian

The Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian conflict is a variety of colloquial Arabic spoken in Syria , in Lebanon , and in some urban areas of Palestine. We can distinguish slight regional variations in this dialect, which does detract from the mutual understanding:

Lebanese (spoken as far south of Syria)
North Syrian
Syrian Central
Palestinian areas (not to be confused with the other two varieties of Arabic spoken in Palestine - The Palestinian-Jordanian and Palestinian Bedouin - who form separate dialects)

Lebanese Dialect

In Lebanon the letters are hardly emphatic, words are rarely contracted and most importantly, the letter "Qaf" guttural par excellence, does not comment (except sometimes in the Druze mountains). As for the grammar of Lebanon, it is much simpler than literary Arabic. Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian are very close. The differences in vocabulary and pronunciation between the three dialects are still limited and does not interfere with communication. Despite the large number of borrowings from Turkish and French, the Lebanese still modeled on classical Arabic with which it interacts continuously.

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Varieties of Arabic

Western Arabic

Iberian	Andalou
Maghreb	Moroccan Algerian Tunisia
Sicilian-Arab	Sicilian Arabic Maltese
Bedouin	Libyan Saharan Hassania

Eastern Arabic

Nile	Egyptian Saidi Sudan Chad
Levantine	Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian ( Lebanese Syrian Central North Syrian Palestinian urban ) Jordanian-Palestinian Palestinian Bedouin Cyprus
Mesopotamian	Iraq ( gilit qeltu ) Anatolian Khuzestan Tajiks Uzbeki
Arabic	Gulf Nejd Hejaz Yemen ( Sanaa of Taiz and Aden of Hadramaut ) Omanis Baharna Dhofar Shihhi