Africa · ISO 639-3 bej · Glottocode beja1238
Beja
Beja expands the collection with an Afro-Asiatic language sourced across Egypt, Eritrea and Sudan and given a likely Arabic-script assignment.
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Likely script
- Arabic (Arab)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- EG · ER · SD
- Reference point
- 17.244, 36.667
Open research question
How do script choice, regional varieties and domains of media use differ across the cross-border language setting?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.