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colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:110%; color: black; background-color: #faecc8;">Σάννα · <i>Sanna</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Native to</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Region</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Kormakitis" title="Kormakitis">Kormakitis</a> and urban areas in the south</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Ethnicity</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Maronite_Cypriots" title="Maronite Cypriots">Maronite Cypriots</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Cypriots" title="Lebanese Cypriots">Lebanese Cypriots</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;">Speakers</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">No <abbr title="first-language">L1</abbr> speakers in the south (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECouncil_of_Europe20144_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECouncil_of_Europe20144-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />9,800 total speakers (2013 UNSD)<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Language_family" title="Language family">Language family</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" title="Afroasiatic languages">Afro-Asiatic</a> <ul style="line-height:100%; margin-left:1.35em;padding-left:0"><li> <a href="/wiki/Semitic_languages" title="Semitic languages">Semitic</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/West_Semitic_languages" title="West Semitic languages">West Semitic</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Semitic_languages" title="Central Semitic languages">Central Semitic</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" title="Varieties of Arabic">Arabic</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="Mesopotamian Arabic">Mesopotamian</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><a href="/wiki/North_Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="North Mesopotamian Arabic">Qeltu</a><ul style="line-height:100%;margin-left:0.45em;padding-left:0;"><li><b>Cypriot Arabic</b></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><span class="wrap"><a href="/wiki/Writing_system" title="Writing system">Writing system</a></span></div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Greek_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek script">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin_script" title="Latin script">Latin</a><br /> <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic script</a> (historical)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: black; background-color: #faecc8;">Official status</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Recognised minority<br />language in</div></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><div style="vertical-align:middle;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/23px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/35px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_Cyprus.svg/45px-Flag_of_Cyprus.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: black; background-color: #faecc8;">Language codes</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/ISO_639-3" title="ISO 639-3">ISO 639-3</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code><a href="https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/acy" class="extiw" title="iso639-3:acy">acy</a></code></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Glottolog" title="Glottolog">Glottolog</a></i></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cypr1248">cypr1248</a></code></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Endangered_Languages_Project" title="Endangered Languages Project">ELP</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3177">Cypriot Spoken Arabic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.65em;"><a href="/wiki/Linguasphere_Observatory" title="Linguasphere Observatory">Linguasphere</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><code><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hortensj-garden.org/index.php?tnc=1&tr=lsr&nid=12-AAC-ehx">12-AAC-ehx</a></code></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_Arabic_in_the_Levant.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Map_Arabic_in_the_Levant.jpg/320px-Map_Arabic_in_the_Levant.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Map_Arabic_in_the_Levant.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="440" /></a></span><div style="text-align:left;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output 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<a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" title="Varieties of Arabic">variety</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> spoken by the <a href="/wiki/Maronites_in_Cyprus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maronites in Cyprus">Maronite</a> community of <a href="/wiki/Cyprus" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>. Formerly speakers were mostly situated in <a href="/wiki/Kormakitis" title="Kormakitis">Kormakitis</a>, but following the <a href="/wiki/Turkish_invasion_of_Cyprus" title="Turkish invasion of Cyprus">Turkish invasion of Cyprus</a> in 1974, the majority relocated to the south and dispersed,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2001212_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2001212-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> leading to the decline of the language.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011507_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011507-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Traditionally bilingual in <a href="/wiki/Cypriot_Greek" title="Cypriot Greek">Cypriot Greek</a>, as of some time prior to 2000, all remaining speakers of Cypriot Arabic were over 30 years of age.<sup id="cite_ref-e13_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-e13-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 2011 census reported that, of the 3,656 Maronite Cypriots in Republic of Cyprus-controlled areas, none declared Cypriot Arabic as their <a href="/wiki/First_language" title="First language">first language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECouncil_of_Europe20144_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECouncil_of_Europe20144-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_and_classification">History and classification</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_Arabic&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History and classification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cypriot Arabic was first introduced to Cyprus by <a href="/wiki/Maronite_Church" title="Maronite Church">Maronites</a> who came mainly from <a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a> as early as the seventh century, with waves of immigration up to the thirteenth century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011536-537_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011536-537-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011507_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011507-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 2002, it is one of UNESCO-designated severely <a href="/wiki/Endangered_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Endangered languages">endangered languages</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011535_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011535-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, since 2008, it is recognised as a minority language of Cyprus,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> coinciding with an attempt to revitalise the language.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011508_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadjioannouTsiplakouKappler2011508-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cypriot Arabic has in the past been assigned to a Syrian-Lebanese or <a href="/wiki/Levantine_Arabic" title="Levantine Arabic">Levantine Arabic</a> classification, likely owing to the contemporary presence of a large Lebanese-speaking Maronite community on the mainland.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg2004a_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg2004a-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, more recently it has been shown to share a large number of common features with the <i>qeltu</i> or <a href="/wiki/North_Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="North Mesopotamian Arabic">North Mesopotamian Arabic</a> dialects of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, and a pre-Cypriot medieval antecedent has been deduced as belonging to this dialect area.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOwens2006274_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOwens2006274-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indications of an Aramaic substrate suggest it was close to the time of the language shift from Aramaic to Arabic; other features are common to those of Syro-Lebanese and Palestinian, which go back to a period in which there was a <a href="/wiki/Dialect_continuum" title="Dialect continuum">dialect continuum</a> between the Mesopotamian dialects and the Syrian dialect area.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2001212_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2001212-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011536-537_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011536-537-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Cypriot stage, the language was extensively restructured through contact with <a href="/wiki/Cypriot_Greek" title="Cypriot Greek">Cypriot Greek</a>, acquiring numerous features and constraints not typical of Arabic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011539_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011539-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Essentially unintelligible to mainland Arabic speakers, it is characterized as an isolated "peripheral Arabic" along with others such as <a href="/wiki/Maltese_language" title="Maltese language">Maltese</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg2004bxviii-xix_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg2004bxviii-xix-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its Arabic component is a hybrid of dialects from diverse areas and times of Southeastern Anatolia, northern Syria, and Mesopotamia, as well as the Levant, offering unique insights into the historical evolution of Eastern Arabic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011541_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersteegh2011541-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Phonology">Phonology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_Arabic&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Phonology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Missing_information plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/44px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" height="44" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/66px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Wiki_letter_w.svg/88px-Wiki_letter_w.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="44" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>is missing information</b> about what Old Arabic <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/ħ,<span class="wrap"> </span>ʔ,<span class="wrap"> </span>ʁ/</span> became in Cypriot Maronite Arabic.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Cypriot_Arabic" title="Talk:Cypriot Arabic">talk page</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2017</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="#CITEREFBorg1997">Borg (1997)</a> argues that the sound system of Cypriot Arabic has been heavily influenced by that of <a href="/wiki/Cypriot_Greek" title="Cypriot Greek">Cypriot Greek</a>. Cypriot Arabic has lost all <a href="/wiki/Emphatic_consonants" class="mw-redirect" title="Emphatic consonants">emphatic consonants</a> and <a href="/wiki/Stop_consonants" class="mw-redirect" title="Stop consonants">stop</a>-voicing opposition (though this is subject to debate in literature)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg1997228_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg1997228-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—but retained <a href="/wiki/Gemination" title="Gemination">gemination</a>. Geminate voiceless stop consonants surface as <a href="/wiki/Aspiration_(linguistics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aspiration (linguistics)">aspirates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg1997229_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg1997229-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, Old Arabic <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_uvular_plosive" title="Voiceless uvular plosive">q</a>/</span> merged with <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/k/</span>, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/b/</span> became <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/p/</span>, and <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/d/</span> merged with <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/t/</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg1997228_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg1997228-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The consonant <a href="/wiki/Phoneme" title="Phoneme">phonemes</a> of Cypriot Arabic, according to <a href="#CITEREFBorg1997">Borg (1997)</a>, are <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/m<span class="wrap"> </span>n<span class="wrap"> </span>p<span class="wrap"> </span>t<span class="wrap"> </span>k<span class="wrap"> </span>f<span class="wrap"> </span>v<span class="wrap"> </span>θ<span class="wrap"> </span>ð<span class="wrap"> </span>s<span class="wrap"> </span>z<span class="wrap"> </span>ʃ<span class="wrap"> </span>ʒ<span class="wrap"> </span>x<span class="wrap"> </span>j<span class="wrap"> </span>l<span class="wrap"> </span>r<span class="wrap"> </span>ʕ/</span>. <a href="/wiki/Affricate" title="Affricate">Affricates</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[t͡ʃ<span class="wrap"> </span>d͡ʒ]</span> occur as <a href="/wiki/Allophone" title="Allophone">allophones</a> of <a href="/wiki/Consonant_cluster" title="Consonant cluster">clusters</a> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/tʃ<span class="wrap"> </span>dʒ/</span>. Voiced stops occur as allophones of voiceless stops <a href="/wiki/Intervocalic" class="mw-redirect" title="Intervocalic">intervocalically</a> and next to a <a href="/wiki/Sonorant" title="Sonorant">sonorant</a> or <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/z/</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg1997228–229_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg1997228–229-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are five vowel phonemes, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/a<span class="wrap"> </span>e<span class="wrap"> </span>i<span class="wrap"> </span>o<span class="wrap"> </span>u/</span>, and two diphthongs, <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/aj<span class="wrap"> </span>aw/</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg1997222–223_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg1997222–223-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Phonological rules observed in Cypriot Arabic include:<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBorg1997223–225_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBorg1997223–225-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Historical stop + stop clusters are dissimilated to <a href="/wiki/Fricative_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Fricative consonant">fricative</a> + stop.</li> <li><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/k<span class="wrap"> </span>x/</span> are <a href="/wiki/Palatalization_(sound_change)" title="Palatalization (sound change)">palatalized</a> to <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[c<span class="wrap"> </span>ç]</span> before <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/i<span class="wrap"> </span>e<span class="wrap"> </span>j/</span>. <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/j/</span> is fully <a href="/wiki/Consonant_assimilation" class="mw-redirect" title="Consonant assimilation">assimilated</a>.</li> <li><span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">/j/</span> between an <a href="/wiki/Obstruent" title="Obstruent">obstruent</a> and a vowel surfaces as <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[kj]</span>.</li> <li>An <a href="/wiki/Epenthesis" title="Epenthesis">epenthetic</a> stop occurs between a nasal and a <a href="/wiki/Continuant" title="Continuant">continuant</a> or sonorant. The <a href="/wiki/Place_of_articulation" title="Place of articulation">place of articulation</a> is inherited from the nasal before it and the voicing from the continuant or sonorant that follows.</li></ul> <p>Phenomena similar to the first three are also observed in Cypriot Greek. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing_system">Writing system</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_Arabic&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Writing system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2009, the Committee of Experts for the Codification of Cypriot Maronite Arabic submitted an action plan for the codification and revitalisation of the language to the Cypriot government.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECouncil_of_Europe20113_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECouncil_of_Europe20113-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Public Foundation for European Comparative Minority Research reported in 2006 that both the <a href="/wiki/Greek_alphabet" title="Greek alphabet">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> script had been suggested for adoption. The Greek script is used for Cypriot Arabic in a Cypriot Arabic–Greek <a href="/wiki/Translation_dictionary" class="mw-redirect" title="Translation dictionary">dictionary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPublic_Foundation_for_European_Comparative_Minority_Research200612_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPublic_Foundation_for_European_Comparative_Minority_Research200612-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Alexander Borg, a linguist specialising in the language, created a Latin-based alphabet with elements from Maltese and Greek that the <a href="/wiki/Non-governmental_organisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-governmental organisation">non-governmental organisation</a> for the revitalisation of the language "Hki Fi Sanna" endorsed in 2007, and some "small texts" have apparently been translated into it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHki_Fi_SannaZtite20083_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHki_Fi_SannaZtite20083-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="29">Cypriot Arabic Latin Alphabet </th></tr> <tr> <td>A</td> <td>B</td> <td>C</td> <td>D</td> <td>Δ </td> <td>E</td> <td>F</td> <td>G</td> <td>Ġ</td> <td>Ċ </td> <td>I</td> <td>J</td> <td>K</td> <td>L</td> <td>M </td> <td>N</td> <td>O</td> <td>P</td> <td>Θ</td> <td>R </td> <td>S</td> <td>T</td> <td>U</td> <td>V</td> <td>W </td> <td>X</td> <td>Y</td> <td>Z</td> <td>Ş </td></tr> <tr> <td>a</td> <td>b</td> <td>c</td> <td>d</td> <td>ẟ </td> <td>e</td> <td>f</td> <td>g</td> <td>ġ</td> <td>ċ </td> <td>i</td> <td>j</td> <td>k</td> <td>l</td> <td>m </td> <td>n</td> <td>o</td> <td>p</td> <td>θ</td> <td>r </td> <td>s</td> <td>t</td> <td>u</td> <td>v</td> <td>w </td> <td>x</td> <td>y</td> <td>z</td> <td>ş </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>All letters loosely represent their <a href="/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a> values, with some exceptions: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/C" title="C">c</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_pharyngeal_fricative" title="Voiced pharyngeal fricative">ʕ</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%8A" title="Ċ">ċ</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiceless postalveolar affricate">tʃ</a>]</span> (biphonemic)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%E1%BA%9F" class="mw-redirect" title="ẟ">ẟ</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_dental_fricative" title="Voiced dental fricative">ð</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%A0" title="Ġ">ġ</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_affricate" title="Voiced postalveolar affricate">dʒ</a>]</span> (biphonemic)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J" title="J">j</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiced postalveolar fricative">ʒ</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9E" title="Ş">ş</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative" title="Voiceless postalveolar fricative">ʃ</a>]</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Y" title="Y">y</a>: <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="und-Latn-fonipa" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)">[<a href="/wiki/Voiced_palatal_approximant" title="Voiced palatal approximant">j</a>]</span></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Examples">Examples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_Arabic&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Phrases<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dt></dl> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Ismi o Kumetto. Ayşo ismak l-id?</i></span></td> <td>My name is Kumetto. What is your name? </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Ismi l-ana o Pavlo. Ayşo ismik l-idi?</i></span></td> <td>My name is Pavlo. What is your name? (fem.) </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy">L-aẟa aş pikulullu?</i></span></td> <td>What is his name? </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">L-ism tel l-yapati o Antoni</i></span></td> <td>My father's name is Antoni </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Xmenye u tisca aşka pisawnna?</i></span></td> <td>What do eight and nine make? </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Pisawnna caşra u sapca.</i></span></td> <td>They make seventeen </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Aş xar kan imps? Imps kan Yamuxmis</i></span></td> <td>What day was yesterday? Yesterday was Thursday </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Aş xar tte kun pukra? Pukra tte kun Yamussift</i></span></td> <td>What day is tomorrow? Tomorrow is Saturday </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Yamuxxat marrux fi li knise</i></span></td> <td>On Sunday we go to church </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Kilt xops ma zaytun, xaytċ casel u şraft xlip tel pakra</i></span></td> <td>I ate bread with olives, some honey and drank some cow's milk </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">Ye</i></span></td> <td>Yes </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Cypriot Arabic-language text"><i lang="acy-Latn">La</i></span></td> <td>No </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_Arabic&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Cypriot_Maronite_Arabic_Swadesh_List" class="extiw" title="wikt:Appendix:Cypriot Maronite Arabic Swadesh List">Cypriot Maronite Arabic Swadesh list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Cyprus" title="Languages of Cyprus">Languages of Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" title="Varieties of Arabic">Varieties of Arabic</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes_and_references">Notes and references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cypriot_Arabic&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes and references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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href="/wiki/Aleph#Arabic_ʼAlif" title="Aleph"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">ʾAlif</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bet_(letter)#Arabic_bāʾ" title="Bet (letter)"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Bāʾ</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taw#Arabic_tāʾ" title="Taw"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Tāʾ</i></span></a></li> <li><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/%E1%B9%AE%C4%81%CA%BE" title="Ṯāʾ">Ṯāʾ</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gimel#Arabic_ǧīm" title="Gimel"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Ǧīm</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heth#Arabic_ḥāʾ" title="Heth"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Ḥāʾ</i></span></a></li> <li><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic 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lang="ar-Latn">Ġayn</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pe_(Semitic_letter)" title="Pe (Semitic letter)"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Fāʾ</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qoph#Arabic_qāf" title="Qoph"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Qāf</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaph#Arabic_kāf" title="Kaph"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kāf</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamedh#Arabic_lām" title="Lamedh"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Lām</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mem#Arabic_mīm" title="Mem"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Mīm</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nun_(letter)#Arabic_nūn" title="Nun (letter)"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Nūn</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/He_(letter)#Arabic_hāʾ" title="He (letter)"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Hāʾ</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waw_(letter)#Arabic_wāw" title="Waw (letter)"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Wāw</i></span></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yodh#Arabic_yāʾ" title="Yodh"><span title="DIN 31635 Arabic (Arabic language) transliteration"><i lang="ar-Latn">Yāʾ</i></span></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Varieties_of_Arabic" title="Varieties of Arabic">Varieties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-Islamic</th><td 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_Arabic" title="Jordanian Arabic">Jordanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Arabic" title="Palestinian Arabic">Palestinian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="Mesopotamian Arabic">Mesopotamian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Gilit_Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic">Gilit</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baghdadi_Arabic" title="Baghdadi Arabic">Baghdadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khuzestani_Arabic" title="Khuzestani Arabic">Khuzestani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shawi_Arabic" title="Shawi Arabic">Shawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="South Mesopotamian Arabic">South</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Mesopotamian_Arabic" title="North Mesopotamian Arabic">North</a> (Qeltu)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anatolian_Arabic" title="Anatolian Arabic">Anatolian</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Cypriot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Iraqi_Arabic" title="Judeo-Iraqi Arabic">Judeo-Iraqi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baghdad_Jewish_Arabic" title="Baghdad Jewish Arabic">Baghdadi</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a 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title="Omani Arabic">Omani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shihhi_Arabic" title="Shihhi Arabic">Shihhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Arabic" title="Yemeni Arabic">Yemeni</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hadhrami_Arabic" title="Hadhrami Arabic">Hadhrami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San%CA%BDani_Arabic" title="Sanʽani Arabic">Sanʽani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ta%CA%BDizzi-Adeni_Arabic" title="Taʽizzi-Adeni Arabic">Taʽizzi-Adeni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tihamiyya_Arabic" class="mw-redirect" title="Tihamiyya Arabic">Tihami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Yemeni_Arabic" title="Judeo-Yemeni Arabic">Judeo-Yemeni</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Asian_Arabic" title="Central Asian Arabic">Central Asian</a> <ul><li>Bakhtiari</li> <li>Bukhara</li> <li>Kashkadarya</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khorasani_Arabic" title="Khorasani Arabic">Khorasani</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shirvani_Arabic" title="Shirvani Arabic">Shirvani</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chadian_Arabic" title="Chadian Arabic">Chadian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Arabic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian Arabic">Nigerian</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sociolinguistics" title="Sociolinguistics">Sociological</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bedouin_Arabic" title="Bedouin Arabic">Bedouin Arabic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Judeo-Arabic" title="Judeo-Arabic">Judeo-Arabic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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