20260923-0 South Levantine Arabic 2010-01-01 2025-05-02 true 1950-05-09 AJP 2012-06-27 2011-10-06 al-lahja š-šāmiyya l-janūbiyya اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية ajp ajp Academic sources do not classify sedentary Levantine Arabic varieties into North and South. There is no evidence that North Levantine Arabic and South Levantine Arabic are linguistically well-defined entities. There is no separate development of the two varieties. In particular, native speakers do not define their language as “North Levantine” or “South Levantine”. AJP true AJP 1950-05-09 AJP This code is deprecated in ISO 639-3. It is no longer in active use, but still has the meaning assigned to it when it was established in the Standard. 2023-01-20 2023-01-20