Language NameArabic, Western Egyptian Bedawi Spoken
User Population402,000 in Egypt (2019).
LocationAl Buhayrah, Al Iskandariyah, and Matruh governorates; Al Fayyum, Al Minya, Al Qahirah, Al Wadi al Jadid, and Bani Suwayf governorates: western oases. Bedouin regions along Mediterranean coast, west to Libya border.
Alternate NamesBedawi, Libyan Spoken Arabic, Maghrebi Arabic, Sulaimitian Arabic
DialectsWestern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, Tripolitanian Arabic, Southern Libyan Arabic, Eastern Libyan Arabic.