Arabic, Hijazi Spoken

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A language of Saudi Arabia

ISO 639-3
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Alternate Names
Hejazi Arabic, West Arabian Colloquial Arabic
User Population

10,300,000 in Saudi Arabia (2018), based on ethnicity. Total users in all countries: 10,792,400.

Location

‘Asir, Bahah, Jizan, Madinah, Makkah, and Tabuk provinces; entire Red Sea coast and inland.

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Language Status

6a* (Vigorous).

Classification
Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
Dialects

North Hijazi, South Hijazi, Valley Tihaamah, Coastal Tihaamah. North Hijazi has 4 subvarieties, South Hijazi has 16. A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara].

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Hijazi Spoken
Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab].

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