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Sa'idi Arabic test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
| Sa'idi Arabic | ||||
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| Native to | Egypt | |||
| Native speakers | 18,900,000 (2006[1]) | |||
| Language family |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Writing system | Arabic alphabet | |||
| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | aec | |||
| Linguasphere | 12-AAC-eb[2] | |||
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Sa'idi Arabic (Sa'idi Arabic: صعيدى, locally: [sˤɑˈʕiːdi], Egyptian Arabic: [sˤeˈʕiːdi]; also known as Saidi Arabic[3] and Upper Egypt Arabic[4]) is the variety of Arabic spoken by Sa'idis south of Cairo, Egypt to the border of Sudan.[5] It shares linguistic features both with Egyptian Arabic, as well as Sudanese Arabic. Dialects include Middle and Upper Egyptian Arabic. Speakers of Egyptian Arabic do not always understand more conservative varieties of Sa'idi Arabic.[6]
Sa'idi Arabic carries little prestige nationally though it continues to be widely spoken, including in the north by rural migrants who have partially adapted to Egyptian Arabic. For example, the Sa'idi genitive exponent is usually replaced with Egyptian bitāʿ, but the realization of /q/ as [ɡ] is retained (normally realized in Egyptian Arabic as [ʔ]). Second and third-generation Sa'idi migrants are monolingual in Egyptian Arabic, but maintain cultural and family ties to the south.
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Sa'idi consonants [edit]
Sa'idi Arabic has these consonants:[7]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
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| Plosive | voiceless | t | k | ʔ | ||||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | χ | ħ | h | |
| voiced | z | ʁ | ʕ | |||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ * | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||||
Notes [edit]
- ^ Ethnologue: Arabic, Sa’idi Spoken
- ^ "a". The Linguasphere Register. p. 128. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ ISO 639-3 spelling
- ^ "Arabic, Sa’idi Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ Versteegh, p. 163
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- ^ Khalafallah 1969
References [edit]
- Ethnologue entry for Sa'idi Arabic
- Khalafallah, Abdelghany A. 1969. A Descriptive Grammar of Sa'i:di Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. Janua Linguarum, Series Practica 32. The Hague: Mouton.
- Versteegh, Kees (2001). The Arabic Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1436-2.
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