Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 ars
Najdi Arabic Language
Najdi Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 1.0 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Najdi Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Najdi Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Arabian Peninsula Arabic
- North Arabian Beduin Arabic
- Najdi Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Najdi Arabic language
Najdi Arabic is spoken by about 1.0 million people, which makes it the 459th most spoken language in the world — just behind Talysh (1.0 million) and ahead of Bena (Tanzania) (1.0 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the North Arabian Beduin Arabic group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Najdi Arabic spoken?
Najdi Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Saudi Arabia (1.1 million).
Najdi Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Najdi 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 Omani Arabic, Sanaani Arabic, Ta'izzi-Adeni Arabic, Hijazi Arabic, Hadrami Arabic, Standard Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 ars.
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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.