Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 avl
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic Language
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 2.8 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Egyptic Arabic
- Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic language
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is spoken by about 2.8 million people, which makes it the 260th most spoken language in the world — just behind Maay (2.9 million) and ahead of Tibetan (2.8 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Egyptic Arabic group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic spoken?
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Egypt (2.8 million).
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is written in the Perso-Arabic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Egyptian Arabic, Sudanese Arabic, Saidi Arabic, Chadian Arabic, Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 avl.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.