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What is the name of the Nilo-Saharan language, unrelated to Arabic or ancient Egyptian, spoken by the Bedouin-influenced communities of the southeastern desert near the Sudanese border?
Answer: Bedawiyet — Bedawiyet (also called Beja) is spoken by several tribes in the Eastern Desert and Red Sea hills, a Cushitic-adjacent language with its own script proposal (the 'Bedawiyet abjad') and a rich oral poetic tradition entirely independent of the Arabic literary canon.
- A Bedawiyet ✓
- B Kenzi
- C Siwi
- D Domari
Bedawiyet (also called Beja) is spoken by several tribes in the Eastern Desert and Red Sea hills, a Cushitic-adjacent language with its own script proposal (the 'Bedawiyet abjad') and a rich oral poetic tradition entirely independent of the Arabic literary canon.