Najdi Arabic
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| Najdi Arabic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Syria | |
| Total speakers: | 9,863,520 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Najdi Arabic |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | ars | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the desert regions of central and eastern Saudi Arabia. It is also the colloquial variety of Arabic spoken in the capital Riyadh. It is also spoken by Bedouin groups in neighboring Jordan, Syria, and Iraq. [1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue entry for Najdi Arabic
- P.F. Abboud. 1964. "The Syntax of Najdi Arabic," University of Texas PhD dissertation.
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