(اللهجة الشامية (الجنوبية
South Levantine Arabic
Paterson (NJ)Community Profile: A broad representation of the world's Arabic varieties, as used by Muslims, Christians, and Jews from West Africa to Iraq, can be found across the metropolitan area — although many of them are mutually unintelligible with each other, speakers are able to communicate in the Modern Standard Arabic known as al-fuṣḥā ("the purest") and have the shared liturgical language of Classical (or Quranic) Arabic, and there is often widespread familiarity with larger varieties like Egyptian Arabic.
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ost early Arabic speakers in New York, primarily Levantine Christians from the Ottoman Province of Lebanon, began to arrive in the 19th century, originally settling in the "Little Syria" along Washington Street in a then deeply diverse pocket of lower Manhattan. As the "Syrians in New York" research initiative demonstrated, many factors, ultimately including construction of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, drove the community to Brooklyn — first South Ferry (now known as Boerum Hill) and later primarily Bay Ridge (where Palestinian New Yorkers have formed the organization Beit Hanania). Yonkers, and Paterson, New Jersey also have significant Levantine-Arabic speaking communities.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.