Northwest Arabian Arabic

Not to be confused with Beja language.
Northwest Arabian Arabic

A Bedawi-speaking Bedouin person, 1913
Native to Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Syria
Native speakers
1.7 million (prior to 1996 – 2006)[1]
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 avl
Glottolog east2690[2]

Bedawi Arabic (also known as Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic [ISO 639-3], Bedawi, Levantine Bedawi Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Bedouins mostly in eastern Egypt, and also in Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Dialects include Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, South Levantine Bedawi Arabic, and North Levantine Bedawi Arabic.[3]

Notes

  1. Northwest Arabian Arabic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Gordon 2005

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