Bedawi Arabic

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
	Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

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Not to be confused with Beja language

A Bedawi-speaking Bedouin person, 1913.

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]

[edit] Notes

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

[edit] References

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.