Bedawi Arabic

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Bedawi Arabic
Spoken in:	Egypt, Jordan, Israel, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Syria
Total speakers:	1,610,000
Language family:	Afro-Asiatic  Semitic   West Semitic    Central Semitic     South Central Semitic      Arabic       Bedawi Arabic
Writing system:	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	–
ISO 639-3:	avl
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Bedawi Arabic (also known as Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic [ISO 639-3], Bedawi, Levantine Bedawi Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by Bedouins mostly in eastern Egypt, and also in Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Syria. Dialects include Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, South Levantine Bedawi Arabic, and North Levantine Bedawi Arabic. ^[1]

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• Ethnologue entry for Bedawi Arabic
• Haim Blanc. 1970. "The Arabic Dialect of the Negev Bedouins," Proceedings of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 4/7:112-150.
• Judith Rosenhouse. 1984. The Bedouin Arabic Dialects: General Problems and Close Analysis of North Israel Bedouin Dialects. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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