"Bedawiyet" Phonological Typology

A couple additions for Bedawiyet typology:

Phonologically, Bedawiyet has pitch stress (Wedekind, Wedekind, and Abuzeinab 2007, 12; Vanhove 2017, 19–21 does not use this terminology but describes the same phenomenon).

The major sources do not agree on the number of phonemes: Wedekind, Wedekind, and Abuzeinab recognise 22 consonants and 5 vowels; Vanhove recognizes 21 consonants and 5 vowel qualities (she gives the number of vowels as 7, but this is because she counts short and long variants separately). The difference is a matter of interpretation of facts, rather than the facts themselves: If we ignore consonants employed in Arabic words, both sources agree on the same 21 basic consonants. (Wedekind, Wedekind, and Abuzeinab recognize /x/ in Arabic words interpolated into Bidhaawyeet sentences; Vanhove recognizes but does not count /z/ in the same situation. In my own field research, I have heard both. /x/ is often realised as [h] or [k], /z/ as [d], but both [x] & [z] frequently appear in the speech of fluent bilinguals).

Wedekind, Klaus, Charlotte Wedekind, and Abuzeinab Musa. A Learner's Grammar of Beja (East Sudan). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007.

Vanhove, Martine. Le Bedja. Leuven: Peeters, 2017.