Najdi Arabic

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Najdi Arabic is a central Arabian dialect of the Arabic language spoken primarily in the Najd region of Saudi Arabia.


Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic dialect
variety of Arabic
closelyRelatedTo Gulf Arabic
Hijazi Arabic
surface form: Hejazi Arabic
country Saudi Arabia
hasAlternativeName Central Najdi Arabic
surface form: Central Arabian Arabic

Najdi
hasDialect Badawi Najdi Arabic
Central Najdi Arabic
Northern Najdi Arabic
Southern Najdi Arabic
hasMorphologicalFeature distinct masculine and feminine plural pronouns
use of analytic genitive constructions alongside construct state
hasPhonologicalFeature affrication of /k/ and /g/ in some environments
preservation of classical Arabic interdental fricatives in many subdialects
hasRegister colloquial speech
informal media
hasSyntacticFeature subject–verb–object word order also used
verb–subject–object word order as common
ISO639-3Code ars
languageBranch Semitic languages
languageCodeStandard ISO 639
surface form: ISO 639-3
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageGroup Central Semitic languages
languageSubgroup Arabic
mutualIntelligibility high with other central and northern Arabian dialects
partial with Gulf Arabic
partial with Levantine Arabic
partOf Arabic
surface form: Arabic language
primaryRegion Najd
central Saudi Arabia
regionType central Arabian dialect area
scriptDirection right-to-left
sociolinguisticSituation diglossia with Modern Standard Arabic
spokenIn Al Jawf Region
surface form: Al-Jawf Region

Al-Kharj
Al-Majma'ah
Arar
Buraydah
Ha'il Region
Qassim Region
Riyadh
Buraydah
surface form: Unaizah

parts of Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia
rural areas of Najd
urban areas of Najd
subclassOf Peninsular Arabic
surface form: Central Arabian Arabic

Peninsular Arabic
usedAlongside Modern Standard Arabic
usedIn everyday communication in Najd
writingSystem Arabic script

Referenced by (5)

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

Gulf Arabic closelyRelatedTo Najdi Arabic
Najd dialect Najdi Arabic
Arabs includeSpeakersOf Najdi Arabic
Colloquial Arabic includes Najdi Arabic
Najd language Najdi Arabic