The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
SIL code: ACY
ISO 639-2: sem
| Population | 1,300 speakers out of 6,000 in the Cypriot Maronite ethnic group, 140 Maronites in Kormatiki, 80 to 100 in Limassol, the rest in the Maronite community in Nicosia. |
| Region | Kormakiti, one of 4 Maronite villages in the mountains of northern Cyprus, and in refugee communities in Nicosia and Limassol. |
| Alternate names | CYPRIOT MARONITE ARABIC, MARONITE, SANNA |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic. |
| Comments | No diglossia with Standard Arabic. Those in Kormatiki are bilingual in Greek or possibly Turkish. Those in southern Cyprus are bilingual in Greek. All speakers over 30. 140 mainly elderly in Kormatiki. A hybrid language with roots in the Arabic of both the Anatolia and the Levant. Many borrowings from Syriac and Greek. People are called 'Maronites.' Christian: Maronite Catholic. |
