Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic
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Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, also known as Sahil Maryut Bedouin Arabic,[3][4] is a group of Bedouin Arabic dialects spoken in Western Egypt along the Mediterranean coast, west to the Egypt–Libya border.[2][5] Ethnologue and Glottolog classify Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic as a Libyan Arabic dialect.[6][2]
Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic | |
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Sahil Maryut Bedouin Arabic Sulaimitian Arabic | |
Native to | Egypt |
Region | Alexandria, Beheira, Matrouh, Beni Suef, Cairo, Egypt–Libya border |
Speakers | 470,000 (2021)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ayl included in Libyan Arabic [ayl][2] |
Glottolog | west2774 |
This variety is spoken by the Awlad Ali tribe,[7][8] who settled in the edges of Lake Maryut and west of Bihera beginning in the 17th century from the region of Jebel Akhdar (Libya).[9] It is also spoken in Wadi El Natrun.[10] Their dialect is phonologically, morphophonemically and morphologically closer to the Peninsular Bedouin dialects than to the adjacent Egyptian dialects.[11] Egyptian Arabic speakers from other parts of Egypt do not understand the Awlad Ali dialect.[12]
Western Bedouin dialects influenced the dialects of southern Upper Egypt between Asyut and Idfu, and those of the Bahariyya Oasis and Bihera.[9]