Arabic, Egyptian Spoken > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Arabic, Egyptian Spoken
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Egyptian Arabic; Arabic (Egyptian); Arabic; Egyptian Spoken; Egyptian; Lower Egypt Arabic; Normal Egyptian Arabic; Massry
Spoken in:
Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Number of speakers:
52,500,000 in Egypt (2006). Population total all countries: 53,990,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
arz
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Egyptian (areg)
Child Dialects:
South Central Delta Arabic (arz-sou)
North Delta Arabic (arz-nor)
Cairene Arabic (arz-cai)
Map of Arabic, Egyptian Spoken
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