10 Facts About Sudanese Arabic

Sudanese Arabic, referred to as the Sudanese dialect, Colloquial Sudanese or locally as Common Sudanese refers to the various related varieties of Arabic spoken in Sudan and Egypt, as well as parts of Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Chad.

Sudanese Arabic has influenced a number of Arabic-based pidgins and creoles, including Juba Arabic, widely used in South Sudan, as well as Ki-Nubi, spoken by the Nubi communities of Kenya and Uganda.

Variety evolved from the varieties of Sudanese Arabic brought by Arabs who migrated to the region after the signing of the Treaty of Baqt, a 7th-century treaty between the Muslim rulers of Egypt and the Nubian kingdom of Makuria.

Under the Sultanate of Sennar, Sudanese Arabic was employed in the writing of historical and theological books, most famously The Tabaqat of the Walis, the Righteous, the 'Ulema and the Poets in the Sudan by Muhammad wad Dayf Allah.

However, Sudanese Arabic is employed extensively on social media and various genres of Sudanese poetry, as well as in Sudanese cinema and television.

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In 1889 the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain claimed that the Sudanese Arabic spoken in Sudan was "a pure but archaic Sudanese Arabic".

However, Sudanese Arabic retains the plethora of innovations on Classical Arabic found in other Egypto-Sudanic varieties, such as the loss of interdental fricatives.

Thus, the term 'Sudanese Arabic' typically refers to Arabic spoken in northern and 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.

Sudanese Arabic that know each other well will often use many of these greetings together, sometimes repeating themselves.