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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]
Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. [2] Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic family that originated in the Arabian Peninsula.
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This region is the most populated in Saudi Arabia, [8] and Arabic is the predominant language, as in the rest of Saudi Arabia, with Hejazi Arabic being the most widely spoken dialect here. Some Hejazis are of ethnically diverse origins, [3] although the vast majority are of Arab origin. [9]
Jul 27, 2022 · There are two main groups of Hejazi Arabic dialects: those spoken in cities such as Jeddah, Mecca and Medina, and those spoken by people from rural areas who live in cities, and by bedouin people. There are about 10.3 million speakers of Hejazi Arabic in Saudi Arabia. It is also spoken in the UAE, Qatar, Eritrea and the USA.
None. Old Hejazi, is a variety of Old Arabic attested in Hejaz (the western part of Saudi Arabia) from about the 1st century to the 7th century. It is the variety thought to underlie the Quranic Consonantal Text (QCT) and in its later iteration was the prestige spoken and written register of Arabic in the Umayyad Caliphate .
Strictly speaking, there are two distinct dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the Bedouin rural population and another by the urban population in cities such as Jeddah, Mecca, Medina, Taif and Yanbu.
