Would you want to see Arab dialects become standalone languages? Is it possible? Will it ever happen?

Yeah. For example, there’s Arabic wikipedia and Egyptian Arabic wikipedia, but it would be cool to have Levantine Arabic wikipedia too.

Also, about the dialectical diversity in their own right, unfortunately that is slowly probably going to gradually disappear. High urbanisation and centralized media is resulting in them resembling each other more and more. The Levantine accents as a whole is becoming less unified, for example Jerusalemite used to be more similar to Damascene (they used to say ne7na instead of e7na for example), Lebanese will likely distinguish itself further from Syrian, but I believe that within each of these, the accents will become less diverse and more unified, some might even disappear.

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