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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". [12] This is related to Sudanese Arabic's realization of the Modern Standard Arabic voiceless uvular plosive [q] as the voiced velar stop [g], as is done in Sa'idi Arabic and other varieties of Sudanic Arabic, as well as Sudanese Arabic's ...
Arabic (alongside English) was an official language in South Sudan from 1863 (these days a part of Egypt Eyalet (1517–1867)) until 2011 (that time the independent state Republic of South Sudan), when the former government canceled Arabic as an official language. Since 2011 English is the sole official language of South Sudan.
Sudanese Arabic is highly diverse. Famed Sudanese linguist Awn ash-Sharif Gasim noted that "it is difficult to speak of a 'Sudanese colloquial language' in general, simply because there is not a single dialect used simultaneously in all the regions where Arabic is the mother tongue. Every region, and almost every tribe, has its own brand of ...
Modern Standard Arabic is in principle the same everywhere in the Arab world and generally permits communication among educated persons whose mother tongue is one or another form of colloquial Arabic. [2] It has been the language used in Sudan's central government, the press, Sudan television, and Radio Omdurman. [2]
عامية المثقفين ʿāmmiyyat al-muṯaqqafīn, 'colloquial of the cultured' (also called Educated Spoken Arabic, Formal Spoken Arabic, or Spoken MSA by other authors [28]): This is a vernacular dialect that has been heavily influenced by MSA, i.e. borrowed words from MSA (this is similar to the literary Romance languages, wherein ...
Typical parameters that may be applied include: whether Arabic is widely spoken; whether Arabic is an official or national language; or whether an Arabic cognate language is widely spoken. Varieties of Arabic. While Arabic dialects are spoken in a number of Arab League states, Literary Arabic is official in all of them. Several states have ...
This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these ...
The most widely spoken languages in Sudan are: Arabic language: Sudanese Arabic. Najdi and Hejazi Arabic, (mainly in mid-north and mid-east regions). Chadian Arabic in western region, (mainly spoken by Baggara and various Arabized African tribes). Nubian language in far north, (mainly spoken by Nubians of Mahas, Dongola and Halfa).