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Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
 of the southern coast of the Red Sea
Red Sea

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
, spoken by about two million nomads, the Beja
Beja people

The Beja are an ethnic group dwelling in parts of North Africa and the Horn of Africa....
, in parts of Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
, Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
, and Eritrea
Eritrea

Eritrea , officially the Country of Eritrea, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast....
.

It is usually seen as Cushitic
Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. They are named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Shem being the eponym origin of Semitic languages....
, but several scholars, notably Robert Hetzron
Robert Hetzron

Robert Hetzron, born Herzog , was a Hungarian linguistics who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage Ethiopian Semitic languages....
 (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic.








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Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language
Afro-Asiatic languages

The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 living languages and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Southwest Asia ....
 of the southern coast of the Red Sea
Red Sea

The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden....
, spoken by about two million nomads, the Beja
Beja people

The Beja are an ethnic group dwelling in parts of North Africa and the Horn of Africa....
, in parts of Egypt
Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
, Sudan
Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
, and Eritrea
Eritrea

Eritrea , officially the Country of Eritrea, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast....
.

It is usually seen as Cushitic
Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. They are named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Shem being the eponym origin of Semitic languages....
, but several scholars, notably Robert Hetzron
Robert Hetzron

Robert Hetzron, born Herzog , was a Hungarian linguistics who focused primarily on Afro-Asiatic languages, especially those in Ethiopia and Gurage Ethiopian Semitic languages....
 (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic.

See also

  • Ababde


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Further reading

  • Herman N. Almkvist. 1881-1885. Die Bischari-Sprache. 3 vols. Uppsala.
  • Václav Blažek. 2003. "Bega language", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), Encyclopaedia Aethiopica Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbadn: Harrassowitz), pp. 519b-521b.
  • Richard A. Hudson
    Richard Hudson

    Richard ?Dick? Hudson is a British linguist. He has lived in England for most of his life . He turned into a linguist via Loughborough Grammar School in Leicestershire , Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies ....
    . 1974. "A structural sketch of Beja," African Language Studies. Ed. D.W. Arnott. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. Pages 111-142.
  • Richard A. Hudson. 1976. "Beja", in: M. Lionel Bender
    Lionel Bender (linguist)

    Marvin Lionel Bender was an United States author and co-author of several books, publications and essays regarding African languages, particularly from Ethiopia and Sudan....
     et al. (eds.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia (East Lansing: Michigan University, African Studies Centre), pp. 97-131.
  • Leo Reinisch. 1893-1895. Die Be?auye-Sprache in Nordost-Afrika 2. 3 vols. Vienna: F. Tempsky.
  • Leo Reinisch. 1895. Wörterbuch der Be?auye-Sprache. Vienna.
  • E. M. Roper. 1927. "The Poetry of the Ha?en?iwa", in: Sudan Notes and Records 10, pp. 147-158.
  • E. M. Roper. 1928. Tu Be?awi?: An Elementary Handbook for the use of Sudan Government Officials. Hertford, Herts, England: Stephen Austin and Sonds, LTD. Oriental and General Printers.
  • Rainer Voigt. 1998. "Zur Gliederung des Kuschitischen: das Be?auye und das Restkuschitische", in: I. Fiedler, C. Griefenow-Mewis & B. Reineke (eds.), Afrikanische Sprachen in Brennpunkt der Forschung: linguistische Beiträge zum 12. Afrikanistentag, Berlin, 3-6 Oktober 1996 (Köln 1998), pp. 309-324.
  • Werner Vycichi. 1953. "Der bestimmte Artikel in der Bedja-Sprache", in: Muséon 66, pp. 373-379.
  • Andrzej Zaborski. 1975. The Verb in Cushitic. Warszawa.
  • Andrzej Zaborski. 1989. "Der Wortschatz der Bedscha-Sprache. Eine vergleichende Analyse", in: Ausgewählte Vorträge. Deutscher Orientalistentag (Stuttgart; ZDMG Supplement VII), pp. 573-591.
  • Andrzej Zaborski. 1997. "Problems of the Beja Present Seven Years Ago", in: Lingua Posnaniensis 39, pp. 145-153.


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