Language

Levantine Arabic

Levantine Arabic is a language in the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in 71 countries.

New Testament

Scripture in Levantine Arabic

The New Testament is reported in Levantine Arabic.

From the Every Language research atlas and its sources. “No known Scripture” means none is recorded in those sources, not that none exists.

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Where Levantine Arabic is spoken

  • Algeria
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Cyprus
  • Denmark
  • DR Congo
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • Eritrea
  • Finland
  • France
  • French Guiana
  • Gabon
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Guinea
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Ireland
  • Israel
  • Ivory Coast
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Luxembourg
  • Malaysia
  • Mexico
  • Morocco
  • Netherlands
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Oman
  • Palestine
  • Panama
  • Portugal
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Sudan
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syria
  • Togo
  • Tunisia
  • Türkiye
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Venezuela
  • Yemen

See Levantine Arabic on the language map

About Levantine Arabic

Part of
Arabic (ISO 639-3 macrolanguage)
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
ISO 639-3 code
apc
Glottocode
nort3139
Also known as
Arabic, Levantine · Arabic, North Levantine: Beqaa

Dialects and varieties 25

Each variety shows Scripture recorded for that exact variety; it may differ from Levantine Arabic as a whole.

  • Arabic, Levantine: FellahiNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, Levantine: HoraniNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, Levantine: JordanianNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, Levantine: MadaniNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, Levantine: PalestinianNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: AleppoNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: BeirutiNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: BeqaaNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: ÇukurovaNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: Iqlim-Al-Kharrub SunniNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: JdaidehNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: North Lebanese LiteraryNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: Saida SunniNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: South LebaneseNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: South-Central LebaneseNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: Standard LebaneseNo known Scripture
  • Arabic, North Levantine: Syrian CalamonNo known Scripture
  • Arabic: DamascusNo known Scripture
  • Cilicia-Antioch ArabicNo known Scripture
  • FellahiNo known Scripture
  • MadaniNo known Scripture
  • North Lebanese ArabicNo known Scripture
  • North-Central Lebanese ArabicNo known Scripture
  • South Levantine ArabicNo known Scripture
  • Sunni Beiruti ArabicNo known Scripture

Sources

  • DIALECTS source registryDIALECTS research collection · Each original source retains its own terms
  • GlottologHammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath & Bank, Glottolog 5.3 · CC BY 4.0
  • Data provided by Joshua ProjectData provided by Joshua Project · Noncommercial missions research and educational use
  • Every Language mapEvery Language and its attributed source providers · Owner-authorized publication; upstream terms retained

Atlas data as of 2026-09-05. Joshua Project data is used with permission for noncommercial ministry research and education. Glottolog data: CC BY 4.0. Macrolanguage membership: ISO 639-3 code tables, iso639-3.sil.org.