Latin alphabet (limited use) Arabic alphabet (limited use)
Official status
Recognised minority language in
Eritrea Sudan
Language codes
ISO 639-2
bej
ISO 639-3
bej
Glottolog
beja1238
Beja (Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea. In 2022 there were 2,550,000 Beja speakers in Sudan, and 121,000 Beja speakers in Eritrea according to Ethnologue. As of 2023 there are an estimated 88,000 Beja speakers in Egypt. The total number of speakers in all three countries is 2,759,000.[2]
Beja (Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers...
the Eastern Desert. The Beja number around 1,900,000 to 2,200,000 people. Some of the Beja speak a Cushitic language called Beja and some speak Tigre, an...
in Djibouti, and as the working language of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. Beja, Afar, Blin and Saho, the languages of the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic...
world Bejalanguage, language spoken by the Beja people Beja Congress, a group formed primarily of Beja opposing the government of Sudan Beja, Portugal...
Ababda at that time still spoke Beja or a language of their own, hence many secondary sources consider the Ababda to be a Beja subtribe. Most Ababda now speak...
ancient Nobiin language that once covered the region. Accordingly, linguists have identified a variety of influences from Nubian, Beja, Fur, Nilotic,...
Hedareb as a first or second language. The Beja also include the Beni-Amer people, who have retained their native Bejalanguage alongside Hedareb. According...
the Beja Congress. The Bishari speak the Bejalanguage as a mother tongue. It belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. The Beja inhabiting...
indicates that the Medjay spoke an ancient Cushitic language related to the Cushitic Bejalanguage and that the Blemmyes were a subdivision of the Medjay...
the Nubian and Egyptian god of creation. Other Beja scholars suggest Khartoum is derived from the Beja word hartoom, "meeting". Sociologist Vincent J...
dictionary. Bedawi may refer to: Northwest Arabian Arabic, or Bedawi Arabic Bejalanguage, also called Bedawi Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic Betawi (disambiguation)...
a subgroup of the Beja. They are more diverse than the other Eritrean ethicities; one subgroup speaks the traditional Bejalanguage, which belongs to...
Port Sudan (Arabic: بور سودان, romanized: Būr Sūdān, Beja: Bar'uut) is a city and port on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan, and the capital of Red Sea State...
agreement, along with contrasting verbal conjugation, can be found from Beja (person agreement affixes in bold): wun.tu.wi, “you (fem.) are big” hadá...
Ottoman title 13258 Bej, a minor planet bej, ISO 639-3 code for the Bejalanguage Jakarta Stock Exchange (Indonesian: Bursa Efek Jakarta) BEJ48, a Chinese...
were upon Islam. The Amarar are said to speak the purest form of the Bejalanguage. Burckhardt, John Lewis (1819). Travels in Nubia: by the late John Lewis...
Arabized African tribes). Nubian language in far north, (mainly spoken by Nubians of Mahas, Dongola and Halfa). Bejalanguage known as Bedawit in far east...
The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic...
Other Afro-Asiatic languages belonging to the Cushitic branch are also widely spoken in the country. The latter include Afar, Beja, Blin, and Saho. In...
Ariab district. The Amarar are said to speak the purest form of the Bejalanguage. The name Marehan is derived from the Harari word maraxa, which means...
tongue (Bejalanguage). Although this theory had long been neglected, this etymology has come into acceptance, alongside the identification of the Beja people...
the linguistic relationship between the modern Bejalanguage and the ancient Cushitic Blemmyan language which dominated Lower Nubia and that the Blemmyes...
Musa (2007). A learner's grammar of Beja (East Sudan): grammar, texts and vocabulary (Beja-English and English-Beja). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. p. 10. ISBN 978-3896455727...
Beja Congress (Arabic: مؤتمر البجا, romanized: Mu'tamar al-Bijā) is a political group comprising several ethnic entities, most prominently the Beja,...