Central Najdi Arabic

E196367

Arabic dialect variety of Najdi Arabic

Central Najdi Arabic is the principal urban variety of the Najdi Arabic dialect cluster, spoken mainly in and around Riyadh in central Saudi Arabia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Central Arabian Arabic	3
Central Najdi Arabic canonical	3
Urban Najdi Arabic	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Arabic dialect ⓘ variety of Najdi Arabic ⓘ
country	Saudi Arabia ⓘ
dialectCluster	Najdi Arabic ⓘ
distinctFrom	Gulf Arabic ⓘ Hijazi Arabic ⓘ surface form: Hejazi Arabic Yemeni Arabic ⓘ
hasLexicalFeature	loanwords from English ⓘ loanwords from Modern Standard Arabic ⓘ loanwords from Urdu ⓘ
hasMorphologicalFeature	distinct imperfect verb prefixes compared to Classical Arabic ⓘ use of feminine plural agreement mostly lost in colloquial speech ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	affrication of /k/ and /g/ in some environments ⓘ emphatic consonant contrast ⓘ realization of /q/ often as [g] ⓘ
hasRegister	informal spoken register ⓘ semi-formal spoken register ⓘ
hasSyntacticFeature	use of preverbal subject–verb–object word order in many clauses ⓘ
influencedBy	Modern Standard Arabic ⓘ
influences	urban speech of migrants in Riyadh ⓘ
languageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ Arabic languages ⓘ Central Semitic languages ⓘ Semitic languages ⓘ
mutuallyIntelligibleWith	Badawi Najdi Arabic ⓘ Northern Najdi Arabic ⓘ Southern Najdi Arabic ⓘ
primaryCity	Riyadh ⓘ
region	Central Region of Saudi Arabia ⓘ surface form: Central Saudi Arabia Najd ⓘ
spokenIn	Al-Kharj ⓘ Al-Majma'ah ⓘ Durma ⓘ Riyadh ⓘ Riyadh ⓘ surface form: Riyadh metropolitan area Shaqra ⓘ Tharmada ⓘ urban centers of Najd ⓘ
standardBasedOn	Modern Standard Arabic ⓘ
subclassOf	Afroasiatic language variety ⓘ Arabic ⓘ Najdi Arabic ⓘ Peninsular Arabic ⓘ Semitic language variety ⓘ
usedAs	lingua franca in Riyadh region ⓘ
usedIn	everyday communication in Riyadh ⓘ local media in central Saudi Arabia ⓘ
writingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Central Najdi Arabic
Description of subject: Central Najdi Arabic is the principal urban variety of the Najdi Arabic dialect cluster, spoken mainly in and around Riyadh in central Saudi Arabia.

Referenced by (7)

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

Najdi Arabic → hasDialect → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ

Najdi Arabic → hasAlternativeName → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Arabian Arabic

Northern Najdi Arabic → subdivisionOf → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Arabian Arabic

Northern Najdi Arabic → closelyRelatedTo → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ

Badawi Najdi Arabic → subclassOf → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Arabian Arabic

Badawi Najdi Arabic → contrastedWith → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Urban Najdi Arabic

Southern Najdi Arabic → contrastsWith → Central Najdi Arabic ⓘ