Hijazi Arabic

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Hijazi Arabic is a major regional variety of Arabic spoken primarily in western Saudi Arabia, especially in the Hijaz region including cities like Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah.

Observed surface forms (5)


Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic dialect
spoken language variety
vernacular Arabic
center Jeddah
Mecca
Medina
country Saudi Arabia
hasAlternativeName Hijazi Arabic
surface form: Hejazi Arabic

Hijazi Arabic
surface form: Western Saudi Arabic
hasDialect Hijazi Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Bedouin Hijazi Arabic

Hijazi Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rural Hijazi Arabic

Hijazi Arabic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Urban Hijazi Arabic
hasFeature distinct phonology from Najdi Arabic
distinct second person pronoun forms
distinct vocabulary from Gulf Arabic
influence from Egyptian Arabic
influence from Hejazi Bedouin dialects
influence from Levantine Arabic
influence from Modern Standard Arabic
loss of most short vowels in unstressed positions
simplified case endings compared to Classical Arabic
urban–rural dialect continuum
use of /dʒ/ or /ʒ/ for Classical Arabic /ǧ/ in urban varieties
use of /g/ sound in some Bedouin varieties
use of analytic genitive constructions instead of iḍāfa in some contexts
use of progressive aspect markers similar to other urban Arabian dialects
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afro-Asiatic languages

Arabic
Central Semitic languages
Semitic languages
mutuallyIntelligibleWith many other urban Arabian dialects
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith some non-Arabic languages of Saudi Arabia
partOf Arabic
surface form: Arabic language continuum
region Red Sea coastal region of Saudi Arabia
Western Saudi Arabia
sociolinguisticStatus not typically used in formal writing
vernacular language of Hijaz inhabitants
spokenIn Hejaz
surface form: Hijaz region

Jeddah
Mecca
Medina
Saudi Arabia
Taif
Yanbu
subclassOf Colloquial Arabic
Gulf Arabic
surface form: Peninsular Arabic
usedAlongside Modern Standard Arabic
usedFor everyday communication in Hijaz
informal media in western Saudi Arabia
usesScriptVariant Arabic alphabet
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gulf Arabic closelyRelatedTo Hijazi Arabic
Najdi Arabic closelyRelatedTo Hijazi Arabic
this entity surface form: Hejazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic hasAlternativeName Hijazi Arabic
this entity surface form: Hejazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic hasAlternativeName Hijazi Arabic
this entity surface form: Western Saudi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic hasDialect Hijazi Arabic self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Urban Hijazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic hasDialect Hijazi Arabic self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Rural Hijazi Arabic
Hijazi Arabic hasDialect Hijazi Arabic self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Bedouin Hijazi Arabic
Arabic hasDialectGroup Hijazi Arabic
Arabs includeSpeakersOf Hijazi Arabic
Colloquial Arabic includes Hijazi Arabic
Faifi Arabic relatedTo Hijazi Arabic