Sudanese Arab
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 30 million | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Sudan
|
22 million |
 Egypt
|
5 million |
 Saudi Arabia
|
1 million |
 Libya
|
100,000 |
 Tunisia
|
100,000 |
 Algeria
|
100,000 |
 Morocco
|
100,000 |
 United Arab Emirates
|
50,000 |
 Kuwait
|
50,000 |
 Qatar
|
50,000 |
 Bahrain
|
50,000 |
 Oman
|
50,000 |
 Yemen
|
50,000 |
 Jordan
|
50,000 |
 Syria
|
50,000 |
 Iraq
|
50,000 |
 United Kingdom
|
10,000 |
 United States
|
10,000 |
 Canada
|
10,000 |
 Australia
|
10,000 All data from 2009 |
| Languages | |
| Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Sunni Islam; Small numbers of Shia and Coptic Christians | |
10,000
Sudanese Arabs are the Arabic-speaking majority population of Sudan. They are predominantly Muslim and most of them speak the Sudanese Arabic dialect.
In common with much of the rest of the Arab world, in Sudan the gradual acculturation into Arab culture, custom, language and identity, a process called Arabization, led to the predominance of the Arabic language, aspects of Arab culture, and group identity. The population of Sudan also includes various tribes who are genealogically Arab, such as the Shaigya, Ja'alin, Shukria, Rashaida, etc. (according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, the Bedouins of the eastern desert of Sudan, such as the Ja'alin are almost indistinguishable from the Bedouins of eastern Arabia).
Additionally, other smaller Sudanese groups who have also been Arabized, or partially Arabized, but retain a separate, non-Arab identity, include the Nubians, Copts, and Beja.
While most Sudanese Arabs speak some form of Sudanese Arabic, some other Arab tribes speak different Arabic dialects like the Awadia and Fadnia tribes and Bani Arak tribes who speak Najdi Arabic and the Bani Hassan, Al-Ashraf and Rashaida who speak Hejazi Arabic. In addition, Western province tribes like the Baggara and Darfurians) speak Chadian Arabic, although they have great variation in cultural and genealogy aspects. Sudanese Arabs descend primarily from migrants from the Arabian Peninsula and some of the pre-existing indigenous populations of Sudan, most predominantly the Nubian people who also share a common history with Egypt. In addition, a few Arabian tribes existed in Sudan prior to the advent of Islam. Nevertheless, most Arab tribes migrated into the Sudan in the 12th century and introduced Islam.
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