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Name: Bedawi
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Beja; Bedawiye; Bedauye; To-Bedawie; Bedja; Bedàwie; Bedawye; Bedwi; Bedya; Lobat
Spoken in: Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt
Number of speakers: 951,000 in Sudan (1982 SIL). 30,000 Hadendoa, 15,000 Bisharin (1992). Population total all countries: 1,186,000 (Ethnologue)
Code: bej
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup: North Cushitic; Beja; Northern Cushite; Northern Cushitic; North; Northern Cushtic (ncus)
Child Dialects: Beni-Amir; B.amer (bej-ben) Bisharin; Bisariab; Bisarin (bej-bis) Hadendoa; Hadendowa; Hadendiwa (bej-hao) Amara; Amarar (bej-ama) Hadareb; Hadaareb (bej-had) Ababda (bej-aba)

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