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acwHijazi Arabic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Hejazi Arabic (also known as Hijazi Arabic [ISO 639-3], West Arabian Arabic) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the western region of Saudi Arabia. Although, strictly speaking, there are two distinct dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the bedouin and rural tribes, and another by the urban population, the term most often applies to the urban variety, spoken in cities such as Jeddah, Mecca, Yanbu, and Medina. Outside of Arabia, Urban Hejazi appears to be most closely related to the Arabic dialects of Northern Sudan and Upper Egypt (Ingham 1971).

Entry terms

  • Arabic, Hijazi
  • Hejazi Arabic

ISO 639-3 code

  • acw

Notation

  • acw

In other languages

  • Árabe hiyazí

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/acw

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