Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic
Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel.
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Northwest Arabian Arabic (also called Levantine Bedawi Arabic or Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic) is a proposed subfamily of Arabic encompassing the traditional Bedouin dialects of the Sinai Peninsula and Egyptian Eastern Desert, the Negev, Gaza Strip, southern Jordan, and the northwestern corner of Saudi Arabia.
Maʿāzah dialect represents the southwestern extremity of Northwest Arabian on the Egyptian mainland.
In Saudi Arabia, the dialects of the eastern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, the Hisma, and the Harrat al-Riha belong to the Northwest Arabian type, but the dialect of the Bili to the south is not closely related.
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Words in Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| name | iliy* | |
| eye | Xayn* | |
| ear | dan* | |
| nose | nuxrat* | |
| tooth | sinn* | |
| hand | id* | |
| blood | dammuh* | |
| bone | admah* | |
| skin | Tild* | |
| knee | rukbah* | |
| breast | ded* | |
| water | miy* | |
| sun | SamS* | |
| stone | haTar* | |
| mountain | Tibal* | |
| tree | SiTarah* | |
| night | illel* | |
| dog | kalb* | |
| one | wahid* | |
| two | tnen* | |
| I | ana* | |
| you | intah* | |
| we | ihna* | |
| drink | Sarb* | |
| hear | smxih* | |
| die | tawaffi* | |
| come | gi* | |
| full | milyan* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Grammar
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Glottolog · east2690 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · avl