Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken

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A language of Egypt

ISO 639-3
avl
Alternate Names
Levantine Bedawi Arabic, Levantine Bedawi Spoken Arabic
Autonym
بدوي‎ (Badawi)
User Population

1,100,000 in Egypt (2019). Total users in all countries: 2,430,300.

Location

Al Bahr al Ahmar, Al Isma’iliyah, As Suways, and Bur Sa’id governorates: parts of Red Sea coast east bank, almost to south border; Janub Sina’, Shamal Sina’, and Sinai governorates: mainly Bedouin regions.

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Language Status

6a* (Vigorous).

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

Northeast Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, South Levantine Bedawi Arabic, North Levantine Bedawi Arabic. Similar to some Hijazi dialects in northwestern Saudi Arabia. A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara].

Language Development

TV. Dictionary. Grammar. Texts.

Language Resources
OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken
Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab].

Other Comments

Muslim.

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