Aleppo Arabic

Aleppo Arabic or Aleppine Arabic is the urban Arabic variety spoken in the city of Aleppo.

Phonology

Aleppo Arabic is characterised by the usage of /d͡ʒ/ instead of the typical urban /ʒ/ used in Damascus Arabic and in Lebanese Arabic.
It agrees with Lebanese Arabic with its usage of medial imāla which often turns /aː/ into /eː/. Also has /t͡ʃ/, which is not typical of urban Levantine dialects.

Other sounds /,, / appear in loanwords.
/, /, /, / are phonetically dental , .
// may also be articulated as post-palatal , as can // as from loanwords.
Although the dialect pronounces the Standard Arabic reflex //* as a glottal stop //, a uvular // may also be heard in loanwords from Standard Arabic. It may also commonly be pronounced as an emphatic glottal stop .
Vowels
/, / is typically heard as when in palatal consonant environments or when preceding most non emphatic consonants. It is heard as when in emphatic environments.