Palestinians

===Language===
{{main|Palestinian Arabic}}
[[File:Areen Omari.jpg|thumb |[[Areen Omari]], a Palestinian actress and producer, attends a motion picture ceremony]]Palestinian Arabic is a subgroup of the broader [[Levantine Arabic]] dialect. Prior to the 7th century Islamic Conquest and [[Arabization]] of the Levant, the primary languages spoken in Palestine, among the predominantly [[Palestinian Christians|Christian]] and [[Palestinian Jews|Jewish]] communities, were [[Aramaic]], [[Greek language|Greek]], and [[Syriac language|Syriac]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Robert Bonfil|editor2=Oded Irshai|editor3=Guy G. Stroumsa|editor4=Rina Talgam|title=Jews in Byzantium: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures|year=2011|pages=317, 335, 320|publisher=BRILL|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DNz3y7Wep4C&pg=PA320|isbn=9789004203556|access-date=29 November 2023|archive-date=29 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129193736/https://books.google.com/books?id=4DNz3y7Wep4C&pg=PA320#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Arabic]] was also spoken in some areas.<ref>{{cite book|last=Scribner's|title=Cyril Mango. Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome.|year=1980|pages=13|url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/mango.asp|access-date=14 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117102008/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/mango.asp|archive-date=17 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Palestinian Arabic, like other variations of the [[Levant]]ine dialect, exhibits substantial influences in [[lexicon]] from Aramaic.<ref name=Greenfieldp158>Greenfield et al., 2001, p. 158.</ref>

Palestinian Arabic has three primary sub-variations, Rural, Urban, and Bedouin, with the pronunciation of the ''Qāf'' serving as a [[shibboleth]] to distinguish between the three main Palestinian sub-dialects: The urban variety notes a [Q] sound, while the rural variety (spoken in the villages around major cities) have a [K] for the [Q]. The Bedouin variety of Palestine (spoken mainly in the southern region and along the Jordan valley) use a [G] instead of [Q].<ref name=Ammon>{{cite book|last=Ammon|first=Ulrich|title=Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik 3: An International Handbook of the Science|page=1922|year=2006|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=9783110184181|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LMZm0w0k1c4C&pg=PA1922|access-date=16 May 2021|archive-date=29 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129193622/https://books.google.com/books?id=LMZm0w0k1c4C&pg=PA1922#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

Barbara McKean Parmenter has noted that the Arabs of Palestine have been credited with the preservation of the original [[place names in Palestine|Semitic place names]] of many sites mentioned in the Bible, as was documented by the American geographer [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]] in the 19th century.<ref name=Parmenter11>Parmenter, 1994, p. 11.</ref>

Palestinians who live or work in Israel generally can also speak [[Modern Hebrew]], as do some who live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.