Beja language
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| Beja بداوية Badāwīyä |
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| Spoken in: | Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea | |
| Total speakers: | 1,178,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Beja |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bej | |
| ISO 639-3: | bej | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language of the southern coast of the Red Sea, spoken by about two million nomads, the Beja, in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea.
It is usually seen as Cushitic, but several scholars, notably Robert Hetzron (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic.
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[edit] External links
- An electronic newspaper in Beja ياربُ تِكْوكْوه
- A Beja grammar (in Arabic)
- Ethnologue report on Beja (Bedawi)
- PanAfrican L10n page on Bedawi
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