Levantine Bedawi in Israel
PrintLevantine Bedawi in Israel
dusseaux.antoine_289191, Tue, 2022-11-01 04:17
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ISO 639-3:
avlThe current map shows the whole territory of Israel, even though the location says: "Disputed territory east of Jerusalem on west bank of lower Jordan river and upper Dead sea, scattered."
This map only shows the Negev/South of Israel: https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/13046/IS
Indeed, 70%+ of Israeli Bedouins live in the Negev:
- https://www.refworld.org/docid/5ba34aff7.html "The Bedouin are an indigenous people of the Negev desert in southern Israel"
- https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-bedouin-in-israel/ "Today the Bedouin are almost three percent of the population of Israel, but in the stark Negev desert Bedouin make up one out of every four residents."
- https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-bedouin-in-israel Also mentions that 10,000 Bedouins live in "Central Israel" and 50,000 in Galilee and the Jezreel valley
- https://www.beinharimtours.com/bedouins-in-israel/ "Israeli Bedouin live in small villages and ‘townships’ in the southern Negev desert. Essentially, this is a ‘triangle’ located between the outskirts of Beersheba, Israel’s gateway city to the south, and the small cities of Dimona and Arad." (confirmed by this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Arabic_speaking_localities_in_... )
See also my other related contribution: https://www.ethnologue.com/contribution/701161
Editorial Action
The Ethnologue cartographers will be looking at the interactive map for Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken Arabic [avl] to make some corrections.


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Better map: https://ch-strategy.hevra.haifa.ac.il/images/strategic-series/In_non-gov... (p. 2: "מפה 1 :פריסת הבדווים בארץ ישראל (2018(")
Latest Israeli gov ethnic map (2018, published in 2021): https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/publications/doclib/2021/atlas18_70/%D7%90%D7%...
Dear Antoine,
I will pass this information on to the Ethnologue cartographers.
Best regards,
Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue
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