ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 apd · Glottocode suda1236

Sudanese Arabic

Sudanese Arabic adds to the 1,000-language board a record from Africa identifying classification as a language of the Afro-Asiatic family, not endangered status, and the likely script Arabic.

Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Likely script
Arabic (Arab)
Source status
not endangered
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
CF · EG · ER · ET · LY · SD · TD
Reference point
17.802, 33.318

Open research question

How is Sudanese Arabic actually used and transmitted across families, education, administration, media, and digital spaces?

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.