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Bedouin Arabic

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Bedouin Arabic may refer to several dialects of the Arabic language:

  • Bedawi Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken by Bedouins mostly in eastern Egypt
  • Hassaniya Arabic, the variety of Arabic originally spoken by the Beni Hassān Bedouin tribes
  • Libyan Arabic or Sulaimitian Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in Libya and neighboring countries
  • Najdi Arabic, a variety of the Arabic language spoken in central Saudi Arabia
  • Saharan Arabic, a variety of Arabic spoken in Algeria

See also

  • Bedouin, a predominantly desert-dwelling Arabian ethnic group
  • Varieties of Arabic, regional and other varieties of the Arabic language