Editing Copula (linguistics) (section)

==== North Levantine Arabic ====
The [[North Levantine Arabic]] dialect, spoken in Syria and Lebanon, has a negative copula formed by {{wikt-lang|apc|ما}} {{transliteration|apc|mā / ma}} and a suffixed pronoun.<ref name="Brustad-Negation">{{Cite book |last1=Brustad |first1=Kristen |last2=Zuniga |first2=Emilie |date=6 March 2019 |editor1-last=Huehnergard |editor1-first=John |editor-link1=John Huehnergard| editor2-last=Pat-El |editor2-first=Na‘ama |title=The Semitic languages |publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group | publication-place=London & New York |pages=424–5 |chapter=Chapter 16: Levantine Arabic |isbn=978-0-429-02556-3 |edition=2nd |doi=10.4324/9780429025563|s2cid=166512720 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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! colspan="4" | Negative copula in Levantine<ref name="Brustad-Negation" />
|-
! colspan="2" |
! Singular
! Plural
|-
! colspan="2" | 1st person (m/f)
| {{wikt-lang|apc|ماني}} {{transliteration|apc|māni}}
| {{wikt-lang|apc|مانا}} {{transliteration|apc|māna}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 2nd person
! m
| {{wikt-lang|apc|مانَك}} {{transliteration|apc|mānak}}
| rowspan="2" | {{wikt-lang|apc|مانكُن}} {{transliteration|apc|mānkon}}
|-
! f
| {{wikt-lang|apc|مانِك}} {{transliteration|apc|mānek}}
|-
! rowspan="2" | 3rd person
! m
| {{wikt-lang|apc|مانو}} {{transliteration|apc|māno}}
| rowspan="2" | {{wikt-lang|apc|مانلُن}} {{transliteration|apc|mānon}}
|-
! f
| {{wikt-lang|apc|مانا}} {{transliteration|apc|māna}}
|}