South Levantine Arabic
South Levantine Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشامية الجنوبية, romanized: al-lahja š-šāmiyya l-janūbiyya, South Levantine: il-lahje š-šāmiyye l-jnūbiyye) was defined in the ISO 639-3 international standard for language codes as a distinct Arabic variety, under the ajp code. It was reported by Ethnologue as being spoken in the Southern Levant: Palestine (the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip), Israel, and most of Jordan (in the Ajlun, Al Balqa, Al Karak, Al Mafraq, Amman, Irbid, Jarash, and Madaba governorates).