Eastern Libyan Arabic

Eastern Libyan Arabic
Eastern Libyan Arabic
ليبي شرقي
Native to	Cyrenaica, eastern Libya
Ethnicity	Arabs
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Maghrebi Arabic Libyan Arabic Eastern Libyan Arabic; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic;
Writing system	Arabic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ayl
Glottolog	east2691
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Eastern Libyan Arabic (Arabic: ليبي شرقي) or Cyrenaican Arabic is a variety of Libyan Arabic spoken in the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya.^[1] The variety is centred in Benghazi and Bayda and extends beyond the borders to the east and shares the same dialect with western Egypt, Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, with between 90,000 and 474,000 speakers in Egypt.^[2] It is considered a nomadic Sulaymi subdialect of the Hilalian dialects.^[2]

^ "Glottolog 4.8 - Eastern Libyan Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
^ ^a ^b Dialects of Arabic: Maghreb dialects, dans: The Arabic Language, Edinburgh University Press (2001), p. 164–169 Archived 29 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine

[1] "Glottolog 4.8 - Eastern Libyan Arabic". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2023-11-04.

[:0-2] Dialects of Arabic: Maghreb dialects, dans: The Arabic Language, Edinburgh University Press (2001), p. 164–169 Archived 29 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine

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