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] |
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regions where Najdi is the language of the majority regions that were influenced by Najdi Arabic or have a Najdi population | |
Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية) is a variety of Arabic 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]
Phonology
Consonants
This is a table of the consonant sounds of Najdi Arabic. The phonemes /p, v, t͡ʃ/ (not used by all speakers) exist only in loanwords, and they are not considered as part of the phonemic inventory.
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar/ Uvular |
Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | emphatic | plain | emphatic | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | t | tˤ | k | ʔ | |||||
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | θ | s | sˤ | ʃ | x | ħ | h | |
| voiced | ð | ðˤ | z | ɣ | ʕ | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||
| Approximant | l | k | j | w | ||||||
References
- ↑ Najdi Arabic at Ethnologue (13th ed., 1996).
- ↑ 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
Bibliography
- P.F. Abboud. 1964. "The Syntax of Najdi Arabic", University of Texas PhD dissertation.
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