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Northwest Arabian Arabic

Northwest Arabian Arabic (also called Levantine Bedawi Arabic or Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic) is a proposed[2] subfamily of Arabic encompassing the traditional Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Peninsula, the Negev, Gaza Strip, southern Jordan, and the northwestern corner of Saudi Arabia.[2]

Not to be confused with the Beja language, also called Bedawi.

Northwest Arabian Arabic

Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Syria

3.0 million (2021–2023)[1]

Arabic alphabet

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The dialect of the Maʿāzah in the Egyptian Eastern Desert borders the dialect of the ʿAbābdah, who speak a dialect more closely related to Sudanese Arabic.[3] Research is needed to establish whether the Maʿāzah dialect is the southwestern extremity of Northwest Arabian on the Egyptian mainland.[3]


In Saudi Arabia, the dialects of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, the Hisma, and the Harrat al-Riha belong to the Northwest Arabian type, but the dialect of the Bili to the south is not closely related.[4]

Phonemes in parentheses occur either marginally or across different dialects

Varieties of Arabic

Peninsular Arabic

Gordon, Raymond G.. Jr., ed. (2005), , Ethnologue: Languages of the World (15th ed.), Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics

"Bedawi Arabic"

Blanc, Haim (1970). "The Arabic Dialect of the Negev Bedouins". Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. 4 (7): 112–150.  963504406.

OCLC

Piamenta, Moshe (1996). "More on the Arabic Dialect of the Negev Bedouins". Quaderni di Studi Arabi. 14: 123–136.  25802794.

JSTOR

De Jong, Rudolf Erik (2000). A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral. :10.1163/9789004491229. ISBN 978-90-04-49122-9.

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de Jong, Rudolf (2011). A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai. :10.1163/ej.9789004201019.i-440. ISBN 978-90-04-20101-9.

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Judith Rosenhouse. 1984. The Bedouin Arabic Dialects: General Problems and Close Analysis of North Israel Bedouin Dialects. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.