Sudanese Arabic, also called the Sudanese dialect or Colloquial Sudanese, refers to the varieties of Arabic spoken in Sudan as well as parts of Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountEthnologue total figure, 2022-2024. StatusWikipedia article on Sudanese Arabic: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionGezira, Khartoum, River Nile, Northern, Kordofan, White Nile, Sennar, Qadarif, Anseba, Gash-Barka 2 Classification
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1. Glottolog: Sudanese Arabic (Glottolog languoid suda1236)
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AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Sudanese Arabic
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Sudanese Arabic, also referred to as the Sudanese dialect ..., Colloquial Sudanese ... refers to the various related varieties of Arabic spoken in Sudan as well as parts of Egypt, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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2022-2024
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Gezira, Khartoum, River Nile, Northern, Kordofan, White Nille, Sennar, Qadarif, Anseba, Gash-Barka
In Family: Afro-Asiatic, Infobox, Language family
Afro-Asiatic > Semitic > West Semitic > Central Semitic > Arabic > Sudanese Arabic
Written In: Arabic Script, Infobox: script
Arabic alphabet
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