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Najdi Arabic
| Najdi Arabic | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | central Saudi Arabia | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South-Central Semitic Arabic Najdi Arabic |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | — | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the desert regions of central and eastern Saudi Arabia. It is also the colloquial variety of Arabic spoken in the capital Riyadh.
| Varieties of Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Pre-Muslim conquests | Ancient North Arabian† (Safaitic†, Lihyanitic†, Thamudic†, Hasaitic†) · Classical Arabic |
| Modern Standard Variety | Literary Arabic |
| Maghrebi Arabic | Moroccan Arabic ·
Algerian Arabic · Tunisian Arabic ·
Andalusian Arabic† · Libyan Arabic ·
Jebli Arabic · Jijel Arabic · Saharan
Arabic · Hassānīya · Maltese language ·
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| Levantine Arabic | Lebanese Arabic · Syrian Arabic · North Syrian Arabic · Palestinian Arabic · Cypriot Maronite Arabic |
| Arabian Arabic | Gulf Arabic · Bahrani Arabic · Najdi Arabic · Hejazi Arabic · Shargi Arabic · Yemeni Arabic (Hadhrami Arabic) |
| Iraqi Arabic | Baghdad Arabic |
| Egyptian Arabic | Cairene Arabic · Sa'idi Arabic |
| Sudanese Arabic | Sudanese Arabic · Nigerian Arabic . Chadian Arabic |
| Peripheries | Khuzestani Arabic · Shirvani Arabic† · Central Asian Arabic |
| Judeo-Arabic | Judeo-Moroccan · Judeo-Yemenite · Baghdad Arabic (Jewish) |
| Creoles | Nubi language · Babalia Creole Arabic · Juba Arabic |
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