Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 aec
Saidi Arabic Language صعيدى
Saidi Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 25 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Perso-Arabic script.
Where Saidi Arabic is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Saidi Arabic
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabian
- Arabic
- Egyptic Arabic
- Egypto-Sudanic Arabic
- Saidi Arabic
Writing system
Perso-Arabic script
Related languages
About the Saidi Arabic language
Saidi Arabic (صعيدى) is spoken by about 25 million people, which makes it the 60th most spoken language in the world — just behind Cebuano (26 million) and ahead of Awadhi (25 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the Egypto-Sudanic Arabic group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Saidi Arabic spoken?
Saidi Arabic is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Egypt (25 million).
Saidi Arabic is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Saidi 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, Chadian Arabic, Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, Standard Arabic, Levantine Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 aec.
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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.