Sudanese Arabic - wikipedia Sudanese Arabic Sudanese Arabic Native to Sudan Region Sudan Native speakers ( 17 million cited 1991 ) Language family Afro - Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Central Sudanese Arabic Writing system Arabic alphabet Language codes ISO 639 - 3 apd Glottolog suda1236 This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help : IPA. Sudanese Arabic is the variety of Arabic spoken throughout Sudan. Some of the tribes in Sudan still have similar accents to the ones in Saudi Arabia. Contents 1 History 2 Unique phonological characteristics 3 Influence of Nubian languages 4 Regional variation 5 Greetings in Sudanese Arabic 6 Assenting - saying yes 7 See also 8 References 8.1 English 8.2 French 8.3 German 8.4 Arabic 9 External links History In 1889 the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain claimed that the Arabic spoken in Sudan was `` a pure but archaic Arabic ''. The pronunciation of certain letters was like Hijazi, and not Egyptian, such as g being the pronunciation for the Arabic letter Qāf and J being the pronunciation for Jim. Unique phonological Characteristics Sudanese Arabic is distinct from Egyptian Arabic and does not share some of the characteristic properties of that dialect despite the overall similarity of the two dialects. Sudanese Arabic is more closely related to Hejazi Arabic The Arabic letter ج maintains an archaic pronunciation ( ɡj ) in Sudanese ( other dialects typically have ( dʒ ), ( ʒ ) or ( j ), while Egyptian Arabic has ( ɡ ) ). Sudanese Arabic also maintains an archaic rendering of qaf as ( ɢ ) ( Voiced uvular plosive ) while Egyptian ( like some other modern Urban dialects ) renders it as ( ʔ ). The uvular rendering of qaf has been lost in nearly every other Arabic dialect and is also considered a relic. Also peculiar to Sudanese is the quality of the Arabic vowel transliterated as u / ū ; this is usually transliterated as o in materials on Sudanese because the sound ranges from ɵ ~ o rather than the typical ʊ ~ u. In addition to differences in pronunciation, Sudanese Arabic also uses some different words when compared to Egyptian Arabic. For example, the interrogative pronoun `` what '' in Sudan is shinu rather than `` eh '' as in Egyptian Arabic. Influence of Nubian languages In northern and central parts of Sudan, Sudanese colloquial Arabic has been influenced by the Nubian language, which in ancient times was the dominant language in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan. Many of the agricultural and farming terms in Sudanese Arabic were adopted from Nubian. Sudanese Arabic angareb < Nobiin : àngàréé `` wooden bed '' Sudanese Arabic kadēsa < Nobiin : kàdíís `` cat '' versus Standard Arabic qiṭṭ and hirr ( and derivatives of the same, i.e. diminutive hurayrah `` housecat, kitten '' ). Regional variation Because of the varying influence of local languages in different parts of Sudan, there is considerable regional variation in Arabic spoken throughout the country. Sudanese Arabic typically refers to Arabic spoken mostly in central parts of Sudan. The other most commonly mentioned derivative of Sudanese Arabic is Juba Arabic, a pidgin of Arabic spoken in South Sudan, which is much more heavily influenced by other local languages. Greetings in Sudanese Arabic In northern Sudan, greetings are typically extended, and involve multiple questions about the other person 's health, their family etc. When greeting someone you know informally, it is common to begin with the word o, followed by the person 's first name : Ō, Khalafalla or Ō, kēf ya Khalafalla. Formal greetings often begin with the universal As - salām ʕalaykom and the reply, Wa ʕalaykom as - salām, an exchange common to Muslims everywhere. However, other greetings typical to Sudan include Izzēyak ( to men ) or Izzēyik ( to women ). A rather informal way to say `` How are you '', is Inta shadīd ? Inti shadīda ? `` Are you well ? ( to a male and a female, respectively ) '', the response to which is usually al - Hamdo lillāh `` Praise God '' assuming you are indeed feeling well, ma batal `` not bad '' or nosnos `` half - half ) '' if feeling only okay or taʕban showayya `` a little tired '' if not so well. Of course, there can be many other responses but these are used in everyday language. Other everyday greetings include kwayyis ( a ), alhamdulilah `` Good, thanks to allah '', Kēf al - usra ? `` how is the family ? '' or kēf al awlād ? `` how are the children ''. For friends, the question Kēf ? can also be formed using the person 's first name, prefixed by ya, for example ; kēf ya Yōsif ? `` How are you, Joseph ? ''. Another standard response in addition to al - hamdu lillāh is Allāh ybarik fik `` God 's blessing upon you ''. Additional greetings are appropriate for particular times and are standard in most varieties of Arabic, such as Sabāh al - khēr ? / Sabāh an - Nōr. Sudanese that know each other well will often use many of these greetings together, sometimes repeating themselves. It is also common to shake hands on first meeting, sometimes simultaneously slapping or tapping each other on the left shoulder before the handshake ( particularly for good friends ). Handshakes in Sudan can often last as long as greetings. A handshake between well - acquainted Sudanese will often be preceded by raising one 's right hand and touching each other 's left shoulder simultaneously before engaging in the handshake, all while exchanging verbal greetings. Assenting - saying yes The Sudanese Arabic word for `` yes '' depends on the tribe ; aye is widely used, similar to the Scottish aye, although aywa or na'am are also commonly used. See also Nubi language Juba Arabic References This article incorporates text from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 17, by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, JSTOR ( Organization ), a publication from 1888 now in the public domain in the United States. Jump up ^ Sudanese Arabic at Ethnologue ( 18th ed., 2015 ) Jump up ^ Hammarström, Harald ; Forkel, Robert ; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. ( 2017 ). `` Sudanese Arabic ''. Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany : Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Jump up ^ Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, JSTOR ( Organization ) ( 1888 ). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 17. p. 11. Retrieved 2011 - 05 - 08. Jump up ^ Bruce Ingham, `` Some Characteristics of Meccan Speech '', Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 34, No. 2. ( 1971 ), pp. 273 -- 297. Arlette Roth, 1969 -- 1972, Lexique des parlers arabes tchado - soudanais. An Arabic - English - French lexicon of dialects spoken in the Chad - Sudan area compiled by Arlette Roth - Laly, Paris : Editions du Centre Nationale de la recherche scientifique. English Victoria Bernal, 1991, Cultivating Workers, Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village, New York : Colombia University Press, see glossary of Sudanese Arabic words pp 203 -- 206. James Dickins. 2008. Online Arabic / English Dictionary of Sudanese Arabic, and English / Arabic Dictionary of Sudanese Arabic available at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/40000/479/james_dickins. James Dickins. 2007a. Sudanese Arabic : Phonematics and Syllable Structure. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz. James Dickins. 2007b. Khartoum Arabic. In The Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics ( Vol. 2 ) ( K. Versteegh et al. eds. ). Leiden : Brill. pp. 559 -- 571, available at http://www.languages.salford.ac.uk/staff/KhartoumArabicArticleDickins.pdf James Dickins, 2006. The Verb Base in Central Urban Sudanese Arabic. In Grammar as a Window onto Arabic Humanism : A Collection of Articles in Honour of Michael G. Carter ( L. Edzard and Janet Watson, eds. ). Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz. pp. 155 -- 195. Elizabeth M. Bergman, 2004. Spoken Sudanese Arabic, Grammar, Dialogues and Glossary, Springfield, VA, Dunwoody Press. Abdel - Hadi Mohammed Omer, 1984, Arabic in the Sudanese setting : A Sociolinguistic study ( Language Planning, Diglossia, Standardisation ), Unpublished dissertation, Indiana University ( available on Proquest ). Andrew and Janet Persson with Ahmad Hussein, 1979, Sudanese Colloquial Arabic for beginners, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Horsleys Green, High Wycombe, United Kingdom : This book is a good introduction to Sudanese colloquial Arabic as spoken in Khartoum. Text is in both Arabic and Latin scripts, making it accessible to those that do not read Arabic but want basic conversational skills. Alan S. Kaye, 1976, Chadian and Sudanese Arabic in the light of comparative Arabic dialectology, Mouton : The Hague, ISBN 90 - 279 - 3324 - 3. El Rashid Abubakr, 1970, The noun phrase in the spoken Arabic of Sudan, Unpublished dissertation, University of London, UK. J. Spenser Trimmingham, 1946, Sudan Colloquial Arabic, London, Oxford University Press, G. Cumberlege. Vincent Llewllyn Grifiths & Abdel Rahman Ali Taha, 1936, Sudan courtesy customs ; a foreigner 's guide to polite phrases in common use among sophisticated Arabic speaking population of Northern Sudan, Khartoum, published by the Sudan Government. S. Hillelson, 1935, Sudan Arabic texts, Cambridge, UK : The University Press. French Michel Baumer, 1968, Les noms vernaculaires soudanais utiles à l'écologiste, Unpublished dissertation, Université de Montpelier, France. German Randolph Galla, 1997, Kauderwelsch, Sudanesisch - Arabisch Wort für Wort, Reise Know How - Verlag, Bielefeld, 1. Auflage, ISBN 3 - 89416 - 302 - X Stefan Reichmuth, 1983, Der arabische Dialekt der Šukriyya in Ostsudan, Hildesheim, New York : G. Olms ( originally authors thesis, Freie Universität, Berlin ), ISBN 3 - 487 - 07457 - 5. Arabic عون الشريف قاسم ( ʿAwn al - Sharīf Qāsim ), 1972, قاموس اللهجة العامية في السودان ( A Dictionary of the Vernacular Dialect in the Sudan ), الخرطوم : الدار السودانية للكتاب ( Khartoum : Sudanese Publishers ). External links Sudanese Arabic test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Aramati -- Sudanese Arabic An online dictionary of Sudanese Arabic, plus a c. 6,000 - word description of the language Arabic language Overviews Language Alphabet History Romanization Numerology Influence on other languages Alphabet Nabataean alphabet Perso - Arabic alphabet Ancient North Arabian Ancient South Arabian script Zabūr script Arabic numerals Eastern numerals Arabic Braille Algerian Diacritics i'jām Tashkil Harakat Tanwin Shaddah Hamza Tāʾ marbūṭah Letters ʾAlif Bāʾ Tāʾ Tāʾ marbūṭah Ṯāʾ Ǧīm Ḥāʾ Ḫāʾ Dāl Ḏāl Rāʾ Zāy Sīn Šīn Ṣād Ḍād Ṭāʾ Ẓāʾ ʿAyn Ġayn Fāʾ Qāf Kāf Lām Mīm Nūn Hāʾ Tāʾ marbūṭah Wāw Yāʾ Hamza Notable varieties Ancient Proto - Arabic Old Arabic Ancient North Arabian Old South Arabian Standardized Classical Modern Standard Maltese Regional Nilo - Egyptian Levantine Maghrebi Pre-Hilalian dialects Hilalian dialects Moroccan Darija Tunisian Arabic Sa'idi Arabic Mesopotamian Peninsular Yemeni Arabic Tihamiyya Arabic Sudanese Chadian Modern South Arabian Ethnic / religious Judeo - Arabic Pidgins / Creoles Juba Arabic Nubi language Babalia Creole Arabic Maridi Arabic Maltese Academic Literature Names Linguistics Phonology Sun and moon letters ʾIʿrāb ( inflection ) Grammar Triliteral root Mater lectionis IPA Quranic Arabic Corpus Calligraphy Script Diwani Jawi script Kufic Rasm Mashq Hijazi script Muhaqqaq Thuluth Naskh ( script ) Ruqʿah script Taʿlīq script Nastaʿlīq script Shahmukhī script Sini ( script ) Technical Arabic keyboard Arabic script in Unicode ISO / IEC 8859 - 6 Windows - 1256 MS - DOS codepages 708 709 710 711 720 864 MacArabic encoding Sociolinguistically not Arabic Varieties of Arabic Pre-Islamic Old Arabic Modern literary Classical Modern Standard Maltese Nilo - Egyptian Egyptian Chadian Sa'idi Sudanese Peninsular Northeastern Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi Western Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin Southern Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami San'ani Ta'izzi - Adeni Tihami Judeo - Yemeni Northwestern Northwest Arabian Eastern Mesopotamian North Mesopotamian Cypriot Anatolian Judeo - Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani Central Asian Afghani Khorasani Central Asian Arabic Levantine North Levantine North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese South Levantine Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern Western Iberian Andalusian Maghrebi Pre-Hilalian Urban North - Eastern Tunisian Eastern Village Sahel Sfaxian Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras - Msirda Mountain Judeo - Maghrebi Arabic Judeo - Moroccan Judeo - Tripolitanian Judeo - Tunisian Hilalian Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Algerian Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya Siculo - Arabic Maltese Sicilian Undescribed Shirvani Judeo - Arabic Judeo - Iraqi Judeo - Baghdadi Judeo - Moroccan Judeo - Tripolitanian Judeo - Tunisian Judeo - Yemeni Creoles and pidgins Babalia Bimbashi Juba Nubi Maridi Turku Italics indicate extinct languages. 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Question: what dialect of arabic is spoken in sudan
Answer: Sudanese Arabic