Northwest Arabian Arabic




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





























Northwest Arabian Arabic

Bedawi of the Kishon.jpg
A Bedawi-speaking Bedouin person, 1913

Native to
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Syria
Native speakers
 2.24 million (2015-2016)[1]
Language family

Afro-Asiatic

  • Semitic

    • Central Semitic

      • Arabic

        • Peninsular Arabic
          • Northwest Arabian Arabic
Writing system
 Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3 avl
Glottolog
east2690[2]

Northwest Arabian Arabic is a variety of Arabic spoken by Bedouins of the Sinai Peninsula, the Negev, southern Jordan, and the northwestern corner of Saudi Arabia.[3] In the eastern desert of Egypt, the dialect of the Maʿāzah borders the dialect of the ʿAbābdah, who speak a dialect more closely related to Sudanese Arabic.[4]




Contents






  • 1 Characteristics


  • 2 Levantine Bedawi


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 Sources





Characteristics


The Northwest Arabian Arabic dialects share a number of features distinguishing them from the North Arabian Bedouin dialects:[3]



  1. Absence of tanwīn and its residues.

  2. Absence of affricated variants of /g/ (< */q/) and /k/.

  3. Absence of final /n/ in the imperfect, 2nd person feminine singular, 2nd person masculine plural, and 3rd person masculine plural.

  4. The pronominal suffix of the 2nd person masculine plural is -ku (-kuw).

  5. The use of the locative preposition fi (fiy).



Levantine Bedawi


Levantine Bedawi is spoken in the eastern area of Jordan,[5] in the southwestern corner of Syria and in the Bedouin regions of Egypt (on the northern and southern coast of the Sinai).[6]



See also



  • Varieties of Arabic

  • Peninsular Arabic



References





  1. ^ "Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-08-08..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


  3. ^ ab Palva, Heikki. ""Northwest Arabian Arabic." Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics. Vol. III. Leiden – Boston: Brill 2008, pp. 400-408". horizontal tab character in |title= at position 106 (help)


  4. ^ Jong, Rudolf Erik De (2011-04-11). A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai. BRILL. ISBN 9004201017.


  5. ^ "Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.


  6. ^ "Egypt and Libya". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2018-07-16.




Sources




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

  • 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.














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