Arabic, Sudanese Spoken
A language of Sudan
| Population | 15,000,000 in Sudan (1991). Population total all countries: 16,833,000. |
| Region | Primarily north. Also in Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Saudi Arabia. |
| Alternate names | Khartoum Arabic |
| Dialects | Khartoum, Western Sudanese, North Kordofan Arabic, Ja’ali, Shukri. |
| Classification | Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara] (Saudi Arabia). |
| Language use | Trade language. All domains. All ages. |
| Language development | NT: 1978. |
| Writing system | Arabic script. Latin script. |
| Comments | Western Sudan Spoken Arabic and Khartoum Arabic dialects, Juba Arabic [pga], have little compatibility (Alan S. Kaye 1988). |
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