Languages of Palestinian West Bank and Gaza
Palestinian West Bank and Gaza. 3,762,000. National or official language: Standard Arabic. Recognized by the United Nations during the interim period, based on the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles of 1993. Immigrant languages: Armenian, Hebrew (200,000). Information mainly from W. Fischer and O. Jastrow 1980. The number of individual languages listed for Palestinian West Bank and Gaza is 6. Of those, 4 are living languages and 2 have no known speakers.
| Arabic, Levantine Bedawi Spoken | [avl]
10,000 in Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (1996). Judean desert and along Jordan River.
Alternate names: Bedawi.
Dialects: South Levantine Bedawi Arabic, North Levantine Bedawi Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Arabic, South Levantine Spoken | [ajp]
1,600,000 in Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (1996).
Alternate names: Bedawi.
Dialects: Madani, Fellahi.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Arabic, Standard | [arb]
Middle East, North Africa.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Domari | [rmt]
2,000 in Palestinian West Bank and Gaza (1997). Israel. Gaza and Bir Zeit near Ramallah.
Alternate names: Nawari, Near-Eastern Gypsy.
Dialects: Nawari.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Central zone, Dom
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| Samaritan | [smp]
No known speakers. Ethnic population: 620 (1999 H. Mutzafi). West Bank near Nablus, Tel Aviv, Israel. Also in Israel.
Alternate names: Samaritan Hebrew.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Canaanite
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| Samaritan Aramaic | [sam]
No known speakers. Ethnic population: 620 (1999 H. Mutzafi). West Bank near Nablus; Tel Aviv, Israel. Also in Israel.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, Aramaic, Western
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