Arabic, Chadian Spoken
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Chadian Arabic in Sudan and South Sudan
According to "Map 11.2 Arab tribes in the central African Baggara belt (after Owens 1993: 17)" in The Arabic Language, Versteegh, 2014, p. 206, Chadian Arabic (Baggara Arabic) is spoken in Sudan (in the South) and in South Sudan (in the North, along the border with Sudan).
This is confirmed by this source: THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC SITUATION OF SOUTH SUDAN, p.5, https://portal.arid.my/Publications/7853db3e-71af-4d00-a42d-74b75b7ad35d...
"There are great regional variations in the Sudanese Arabic because it is spoken by people whose native language is not Arabic; therefore, it is greatly influenced by the Sudanese local languages. Sudanese Arabic can be regionally divided into four dialects; Northern dialects spoken by different groups like Shaygiyya, Rubᾱṭᾱb, etc., Eastern dialects spoken by Shukriyya, Rufᾱc a, etc., Western dialects spoken by Baggara is closely akin to the colloquial Arabic spoken in Chad and is known as "Shuwa Arabic" and lastly, the Central dialect, spoken mainly by Jac aliyyῑn, is referred to as Khartoum dialect or Sudanese Colloquial Arabic (SCA). It is the main and standardized dialect that is used in broadcasting; TV and radio (Abu-Manga and Abu Bakr 2006). The number of the speakers of Sudanese Arabic is difficult to determine since there are no sufficient studies and the number of people who speak Arabic as L1 or L2 is increasing."
We will add Western Sudanic Arabic [shu] as a language of Sudan, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.
Other names
In the Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Literature, [shu] is also called Baggara Arabic and West Sudanic Arabic.
We will add these 2 alternate names for Chadian Spoken Arabic (Shuwa) [shu] where they are missing, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.
Arabic in the CAR
According to "Map 11.2 Arab tribes in the central African Baggara belt (after Owens 1993: 17)" in The Arabic Language, Versteegh, 2014, p. 206, Arabic is only spoken in the North East of the Central African Republic. The map for [shu] and the map for the CAR ( https://www.ethnologue.com/country/CF/maps ) should be updated accordingly.
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