Palestinian Arabic is a Levantine Arabic dialect subgroup spoken by Palestinians (including those who had remained in their ancestral lands after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948). Palestinian Arabic exhibits a vocabulary strata that includes word borrowings from Turkish, Kurdish, Hebrew, Ladino, Armenian, English, Syriac, Persian and other Middle Eastern and European languages. Rural varieties of this dialect exhibit several distinctive features; particularly the pronunciation of qaf as kaf, which distinguish them from other Arabic varieties. Palestinian urban dialects more closely resemble northern Levantine Arabic dialects, that is, the colloquial variants of Syria and Lebanon.
Read more about Palestinian Arabic: Differences From Other Forms of Levantine Arabic, Sub-dialects of Palestinian Arabic, Influence of Other Languages
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“I have told my husband that if he denies women equality, I will be in the vanguard of women on the streets, protesting outside his office in the new Palestinian state.”
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