• Shawi or Šāwi Arabic is the Arabic dialect of the sheep-rearing Bedouins of Syro-Mesopotamia. The term Šāwi typically refers to the tribes living between...
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  • Gulf, Mesopotamian, and Shawi dialects. /g/ → /d͡z/ and /k/ → /ts/ in the Najdi dialect group. Eastern dialects: Najdi Arabic, spoken in Saudi Arabia...
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    groups, Northwest Arabian Arabic varieties of the south, and Najdi Arabic and Shawi Arabic varieties of the north. Jordanian Arabic varieties are Semitic...
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    The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ʾabǧadiyyah l-ʿarabiyyah [æl.ʔæb.d͡ʒæˈdɪj.jæ l.ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة...
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  • Mesopotamian group Shāwi dialects (including Urfa and al-Raqqah) Rural dialects of northern and central Iraq. Central Iraqi Group Baghdad Arabic The surrounding...
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    Samira Tewfik (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    fame in the Arab world for her specializing in singing in the Bedouin Shawi Arabic. Samira was born into an Syrian-Armenian Christian family in the village...
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    Mesopotamian group Shāwi dialects (including Urfa and al-Raqqah) Rural dialects of northern and central Iraq. Central Iraqi Group Baghdad Arabic The surrounding...
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  • (ǝlMālkīye) Dēr izZōr Albū Kmāl Xātūnī Shawi Arabic and Najdi Arabic are also spoken in Syria. Syrian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Behnstedt...
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    Languages of Syria (category North Levantine Arabic)
    part of Mesopotamian Arabic (rarely called "North Syrian Arabic"); Shawi Arabic, spoken by sheep-rearing Bedouin; Najdi Arabic, spoken by the Rwala tribe...
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    Semitic languages (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Baghdadi Arabic Shawi Arabic Khuzestani Arabic South Mesopotamian Arabic Qeltu Dialects (dialect continuum) North Mesopotamian Arabic Anatolian Arabic Judeo-Iraqi...
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