Najdi Arabic
| Najdi Arabic | |
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| Native to | Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria |
Native speakers | unknown (undated figure of 10 million)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
ars |
| Glottolog |
najd1235[2] |
Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the Najd region of Saudi Arabia.
There are four major dialects of Najdi Arabic.
- Northern Najdi, spoken in Ha'il Region and Al-Qassim Region in the Najd.
- Central Najdi (Urban Najdi), spoken in the city of Riyadh and surrounding towns and farming communities.
- Southern Najdi, spoken in the city of Al-Kharj and surrounding towns.
- Badawi Najdi, spoken by the nomadic bedouins of Najd. Some tribes have their own distinct accents. Badawi Najdi is also spoken in neighboring Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Iraq.[3][4]
Notes
- ↑ Najdi Arabic at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996). Note: Undated data may come from an earlier edition.
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Najdi Arabic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ↑ http://www.verbix.com/maps/language/ArabicNajdiSpoken.html
- P.F. Abboud. 1964. "The Syntax of Najdi Arabic," University of Texas PhD dissertation.
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