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Arabic, Hijazi Spoken

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A language of Saudi Arabia

ISO 639-3

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Alternate Names

Hejazi Arabic, West Arabian Colloquial Arabic

Population

14,100,000 (2011 J. Leclerc). Total users in all countries: 14,131,700.

Location

Al Bahah, Al Madinah al Munawwarah, ’Asir, Jazan, Makkah al Munawwarah, and Tabuk provinces; entire Red Sea coast and inland.

Language Status

6a (Vigorous).

Classification

Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic

Dialects

North Hijazi, South Hijazi, Valley Tihaamah, Coastal Tihaamah. North Hijazi has 4 subvarieties, South Hijazi has 16. A member of macrolanguage Arabic [ara].

Language Resources

OLAC resources in and about Arabic, Hijazi Spoken

Writing

Arabic script, Naskh variant [Arab].

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Eritrea

Language nameArabic, Hijazi Spoken

Population

31,700 (2010 J. Leclerc). Ethnic population: 80,000 (2010).

Location

Debubawi K’eyih Bahri and Semenawi K’eyih Bahri regions.

Alternate Names

Rashaida, Rashida

Status

6a (Vigorous).

Other Comments

Non-indigenous. The ethnic group, the Rashaida, migrated from Saudi Arabia to Eritrea in the 1840s. Muslim.

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