Bedawi Arabic

Not to be confused with Beja language.

Bedawi Arabic
A Bedawi-speaking Bedouin person, 1913
Native to	Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Syria
Native speakers	1.7 million (prior to 1996 – 2006)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Arabic Bedawi Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`avl`
Glottolog	`east2690`^[2]

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, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Dialects include Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, South Levantine Bedawi Arabic, and North Levantine Bedawi Arabic.^[3]

Notes

↑ Bedawi Arabic at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Gordon 2005

Haim Blanc. 1970. "The Arabic Dialect of the Negev Bedouins," Proceedings of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 4/7:112-150.
Rudolf E. de Jong. 2000. A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World. Leiden: Brill.
Judith Rosenhouse. 1984. The Bedouin Arabic Dialects: General Problems and Close Analysis of North Israel Bedouin Dialects. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Languages of Egypt

Official language	Literary Arabic

Spoken Arabic dialects	Egyptian Arabic Sa'idi Arabic Bedouin Arabic Sudanese Arabic

Minority languages	Coptic (extinct, liturgical) Domari Nobiin Bedawi Siwi and others

Immigrant languages	Greek Armenian Italian

Sign languages	Egyptian Sign Language

Languages of Syria

Official language	Standard Arabic

Minority languages	Adyghe Afshar Arabic Bedawi Levantine Mesopotamian Najdi North Syrian Armenian Azerbaijani Domari Kurdish Turoyo

Sign languages	Levantine Arabic Sign Language

Varieties of Arabic

Pre-Islamic

Ancient North Arabian
- Dadanitic
- Oasis North Arabian
- Dumaitic
- Hasaitic
- Hismaic
- Safaitic
- Taymanitic
- Thamudic
Pre-classical

Modern literary

Peninsular

Northeastern	Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi

Western	Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin

Southern	Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihami Judeo-Yemeni

Northwestern	Bedouin

Eastern

Mesopotamian	North Mesopotamian Cypriot Maronite Anatolian Judeo-Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani

Central Asian	Afghani Khorasani Tajiki Uzbeki Qashqadaryan Bukharian

Levantine

North Levantine	North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese

South Levantine	Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern

Nilo-Egyptian

Western

Iberian

Andalusian

Maghrebi

Pre-Hilalian	Urban Eastern Village Sahel Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras-Msirda Mountain Jewish Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian

Hilalian	Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Central and Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya

Siculo-Arabic

Maltese
Sicilian

Undescribed

Shirvani

Judeo-Arabic

Creoles and pidgins

Italics indicate extinct languages.

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Bedawi Arabic

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