아프리카ㆍ중동

One of the most important sociolinguistic features in the Arab world is a striking dichotomy between two or more varieties of the same language used by speakers under different conditions. This sociolinguistic situation was termed " diglossia" by Ferguson. By Johnston, Levant Arabic is included to Eastern Arabian dialects. This study aims to analyze the characteristics of the Lebanese and Syrian spoken Arabic. As for the phonological features, the Lebanese and Syrian spoken Arabic has 32 consonants under the influence of foreign languages and have many allophones for each consonant, We can find another differences between literary Arabic and Lebanese and Syrian spoken Arabic from the affricate consonants /j/, /z/ and it is also distinguished by /q/ > /? / phenomenon. In addition, the Lebanese and Syrian spoken Arabic possess some morphological, syntactical,lexical features. For the more efficient teaching Arabic for the students as a foreign language we must concern about teaching the phonological and morphological system of spoken Arabic.