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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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