Variety of Arabic spoken in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia
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Hejazi Arabic
حجازي
Pronunciation
Hejazi Arabic pronunciation:[ħɪˈ(d)ʒaːzi]
Native to
Saudi Arabia
Region
Hejaz
Speakers
11 million (2018)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Arabic
Peninsular
Hejazi Arabic
Early form
Old Hejazi
Dialects
Rural Hejazi
Writing system
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3
acw
Glottolog
hija1235
Extent of Hejazi Arabic
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Hejazi Arabic or Hijazi Arabic (HA) (Arabic: حجازي, romanized: ḥijāzī, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation:[ħɪˈdʒaːzi]), also known as West Arabian Arabic, is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Hejaz region in Saudi Arabia. Strictly speaking, there are two main groups of dialects spoken in the Hejaz region,[2] one by the urban population, originally spoken mainly in the cities of Jeddah, Mecca, Medina and partially in Ta'if and another dialect by the urbanized rural and bedouin populations.[3] However, the term most often applies to the urban variety which is discussed in this article.
In antiquity, the Hejaz was home to the Old Hejazi dialect of Arabic recorded in the consonantal text of the Qur'an. Old Hejazi is distinct from modern Hejazi Arabic, and represents an older linguistic layer wiped out by centuries of migration, but which happens to share the imperative prefix vowel /a-/ with the modern dialect.
^Hejazi Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Alzaidi (2014:73) Information Structure and Intonation in Hijazi Arabic.
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