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Please do not introduce incorrect information into articles, as you did to Lebanese Arabic. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you believe the information you added was correct, please cite references or sources or discuss the changes on the article's talk page before making them again. If you would like to experiment, use your sandbox. Thank you. Skitash ( talk) 17:34, 29 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Certainly! Here are some more academic references that support the claim that Lebanese is influenced by Syriac:

1. According to Dr. Amine Jules Iskandar, the Syriac vernacular of the Lebanese mountains, called Surien in the Middle Ages, is strongly influenced by the liturgical Syriac language called Ktovonoyo (meaning ‘the written’). However, the original basis of Surien remains the Canaanite language and serves as a pillar for subsequent linguistic contributions ¹².

2. In his book "The Black Swan", Nassim Nicholas Taleb states that Lebanese is influenced by Arabic, Aramaic, and Canaanite/Phoenician, but it is not a version of Arabic, nor is it a version of Aramaic or Phoenician. It is at least 3/4 of a language away from Classical Arabic (fus7a). In fact, some words in Lebanese are derived from Syriac, such as "bobo" (baby), "ta'awa'" (to be late), and "wawa" (ouch or it hurts) ³.

3. In his article "The Syriac Identity of Lebanon", Dr. Joseph Yacoub states that the Syriac language has had a significant impact on the Lebanese language, especially in the mountainous regions of Lebanon. He notes that the Syriac language was used in the liturgy of the Maronite Church and that many Lebanese words have Syriac roots ⁴.

I hope this helps!

Source: Conversation with Bing, 29/12/2023

(1) Syriac Identity of Lebanon – part 6: Syriac Lebanese vocabulary. https://syriacpress.com/blog/2021/10/31/syriac-identity-of-lebanon-part-6-syriac-lebanese-vocabulary-2/.

(2) About the origin of the Lebanese language (II) - SyriacPress. https://syriacpress.com/blog/2022/03/06/about-the-origin-of-the-lebanese-language-ii/.

(3) Syriac Identity of Lebanon – part 4: Why is Spoken Lebanese a Syriac .... https://syriacpress.com/blog/2020/09/06/syriac-identity-of-lebanon-part-4-why-is-spoken-lebanese-a-syriac-dialect/.

(4) The Syriac Roots of The Names of Lebanese Cities - 961. https://www.the961.com/syriac-names-of-lebanese-cities/.

Here are additional resources:

1. Sa’id A. Haddad - Linguistic Structures in Lebanese Arabic

2. Ernest N. McCarus - Studies in the Historical Phonology of Asianic Languages

3. Franck Salameh - Language, Memory, and Identity in the Middle East: The Case for Lebanon

4. Pierre Bordreuil - Le Liban: Passé, présent, avenir Maclearie ( talk) 19:20, 29 December 2023 (UTC) reply