🇯🇴 What Language Do They Speak in Jordan?
The short answer
Jordan speaks Arabic. The spoken dialect is Levantine Arabic — shared with Syria, Lebanon and Palestine — which many learners consider one of the most useful and widely understood dialects after Egyptian. English is widely taught and common in business.
Worth knowing
- ●Levantine Arabic is the dialect of a region of over 40 million people
- ●Jordanian cities lean toward urban Levantine speech; rural and Bedouin dialects differ noticeably
- ●Petra's ancient Nabataeans wrote in an Aramaic script that later influenced Arabic writing
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