Demographics of the Arab League
On the other hand, Arabic is divided into over 27 dialects. Almost every Arab state has at least one local dialect of its own. they can be divided into 5 major branches, the Peninsula Arabic, which is the Arabic used in the Arabian peninsula, with around 9 main dialects, Arabic of the Nile Valley, which includes the Masri, Saedi, Sudanese and Chadic Arabic, the Arabic of the Fertile Crescent, which includes the Bedawi, Levant Arabic, Iraqi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic, the Magharbi Arabic, which includes the Dialects used in Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia, also another category of Arabic is the other isolated dialects of Arabic, like the Judeo-Arabic, Mediterranean Arabic, Nubi Arabic, and the juba Arabic, which have greatly been affected by these communities' own pronunciation, culture and native tongue.
Monophthongization
Classical Arabic has two diphthongs, ~ and ~. In the majority of modern Arabic dialects, these diphthongs are realised as the long vowels and , respectively. These monophothongized mid vowels developed further into and , respectively, in Urban North African dialects. Some notable exceptions to this monophthongization are some rural Lebanese dialects, which partially preserves the original pronunciations of these diphthongs. Other Urban Lebanese dialects (i.e. Beitruti) uses the mid vowels and , another exception is the Sfax dialect of Tunisian Arabic which is known mostly for its conservation of the Classical Arabic diphthongs and .