Jordanian Arabic

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Jordanian Arabic
اللهجة الأردنية
Native to	Jordan
Native speakers	9.9 million (2022)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Levantine Arabic South Levantine Jordanian Arabic
Dialects	Fellahi (rural) Madani (urban)
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	(covered by apc)
Glottolog	sout3123 east2690
South Levantine   Levantine Bedawi
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Jordanian Arabic is a dialect continuum of mutually intelligible varieties of Arabic spoken by the population of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Jordanian Arabic can be divided into sedentary and Bedouin varieties.^[2] Sedentary varieties belong to the Levantine Arabic dialect continuum. Bedouin varieties are further divided into two groups, Northwest Arabian Arabic varieties of the south,^[3] and Najdi Arabic and Shawi Arabic^[4] varieties of the north.^[2]

Jordanian Arabic varieties are Semitic. They are spoken by more than 6 million people, and understood throughout the Levant and, to various extents, in other Arabic-speaking regions. As in all Arab countries, language use in Jordan is characterized by diglossia; Modern Standard Arabic is the official language used in most written documents and the media, while daily conversation is conducted in the local colloquial varieties.