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        <tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Khartoum Arabic,Arabic, Sudanese Spoken
 
 
<b>Description:</b>
 
Sudanese Arabic is the variety of Arabic spoken throughout northern Sudan. It has much borrowed vocabulary from the local languages (El Rutana). This has resulted in a variety of Arabic that is unique to Sudan, reflecting the way in which the country has been influenced by both African and Arab cultures. Some of the tribes in the eastern part of Sudan still have similar accents to the ones in Saudi Arabia.
Sudanese Arabic is distinct from Egyptian Arabic and does not share some of the characteristic properties of that dialect despite the close physical proximity of the two dialects.
The Arabic letter jim maintains an archaic pronunciation [g] in Sudanese (other dialects typically have [dʒ], [ʒ] or [j].
Sudanese Arabic also maintains an archaic rendering of qaf as [ɢ] (Voiced uvular plosive) while Egyptian (like a majority of modern Urban dialects) renders it as [ʔ]. The voiced uvular rendering of qaf has been lost in nearly every other Arabic dialect and is also considered a relic.
Also peculiar to Sudanese is the quality of the Arabic vowel transliterated as u/ū; this is usually transliterated as o in materials on Sudanese because the sound ranges from ɵ~o rather than the typical<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=723830 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
        <tr><td><h2>Location of Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Language Speakers</h2>
<googlemap zoom="1" width=400 height=300 lat="10.761263" lon="24.478275" type="map">
12.420429, 30.675301, Sudan
9.102097, 18.281250, Africa</googlemap>
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        <tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
 
<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/sudan Sudan]</td></tr>
 
<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>
 
<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>apd</td></tr>
 
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      <tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
[[All Languages]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Semitic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Central Semitic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central South Central Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[Arabic Group]]
 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>[[Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Language]]</b>
 
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