Sa'idi Arabic

Sa'idi Arabic

Infobox Language
name=Sa`idi Arabic
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Egypt
speakers=18,900,000
fam2=Semitic
fam3=West Semitic
fam4=Central Semitic
fam5=South Central Semitic
fam6=Arabic
script=Arabic alphabet
iso3=aec

Sa`idi Arabic (also known as Saidi Arabic [ [http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=aec ISO 639-3 spelling] ] ) is the variety of Egyptian Arabic spoken by Sa'idis south of Cairo to the border of Sudan. [Versteegh, p. 163] It shares linguistic features both with northern Egyptian Arabic, as well as Sudanese Arabic. Dialects include Middle and Upper Egyptian Arabic. Speakers of Lower Egyptian Arabic do not always understand more conservative varieties of Sa`idi Arabic. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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 "bitāIPA|ʕ", but the realization of /q/ as /g/ is retained. Second and third-generation Sa'idi migrants are monolingual in Egyptian Arabic, but maintain cultural and familial ties to the south.

Sa'idi Consonants [Khalafallah 1969]

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References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aec 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.
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