Beja language
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{{language |name=Beja |nativename=بداوية Badāwīyä |states=Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea |speakers=1,178,000 |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |iso2=bej|iso3=bej}}
Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language of the southern coast of the Red Sea, spoken by about two million nomads in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea.
It is usually seen as Cushitic, but several scholars, notably Robert Hetzron (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic.
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External links
- An electronic newspaper in Beja ياربُ تِكْوكْوه
- A Beja grammar (in Arabic)
- Ethnologue report on Beja (Bedawi)
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