Classical Western Levantine Arabic

Classical Western Levantine Arabic is a language designed to coexist with, and partially replace, the dwindling dialect of Cypriot Maronite Arabic, a moribund language originating and formerly primarily spoken in the village of Kormakitis, in the occupied region of Cyprus. It is designed to take into account several phonological features of Cypriot Greek, while grammatically being derived from Classical Arabic and attested forms found in other varieties of Levantine Arabic present in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Western Syria. It should be noted that this variety of Arabic is not the primary dialect of the latter two regions, and much of its vocabulary may cause the language to have a higher degree of mutual intelligibility with the dialect of Israel-Palestine.