Northwest Arabian Arabic

Not to be confused with Beja language.

Bedawi Arabic
A Bedawi-speaking Bedouin person, 1913
Native to	Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Syria
Native speakers	(1.7 million cited prior to 1996 – 2006)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Arabic Bedawi Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	avl
Glottolog	east2690

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, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Dialects include Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, South Levantine Bedawi Arabic, and North Levantine Bedawi Arabic.

Further reading

• 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.