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Northwest Arabian Arabic

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Writing system
  
Arabic alphabet

Glottolog
  
east2690

ISO 639-3
  
avl

Northwest Arabian Arabic

Native to
  
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Syria

Native speakers
  
1.7 million (prior to 1996 – 2006)

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Arabic Northwest Arabian Arabic

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.

References

Northwest Arabian Arabic Wikipedia