• Beja (Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people. Its speakers...
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    Beja number around 1,900,000 to 2,759,000. Some of the Beja speak a Cushitic language called Beja and some speak Tigre, an Ethiopian Semitic language;...
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    in Djibouti, and as the working language of the Somali Region in Ethiopia. Beja, Afar, Blin and Saho, the languages of the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic...
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    Béja (Arabic: باجة Bāja) is a city in Tunisia. It is the capital of the Béja Governorate. It is located 105 kilometers (65 mi) from Tunis, between the...
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  • world Beja language, language spoken by the Beja people Beja Congress, a group formed primarily of Beja opposing the government of Sudan Beja, Portugal...
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    Ababda people (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Ababda at that time still spoke Beja or a language of their own, hence many secondary sources consider the Ababda to be a Beja subtribe. Most Ababda now speak...
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    Eritreans (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
    Hedareb as a first or second language. The Beja also include the Beni-Amer people, who have retained their native Beja language alongside Hedareb. According...
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    ancient Nobiin language that once covered the region. Accordingly, linguists have identified a variety of influences from Nubian, Beja, Fur, Nilotic,...
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    Bishari tribe (category Articles containing Beja-language text)
    the Beja Congress. The Bishari speak the Beja language as a mother tongue. It belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. The Beja inhabiting...
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    Beja (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɛʒɐ] ) is a city and a municipality in the Alentejo region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 35,854, in an area...
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  • Medjay (section Language)
    indicates that the Medjay spoke an ancient Cushitic language related to the Cushitic Beja language and that the Blemmyes were a subdivision of the Medjay...
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  • dictionary. Bedawi may refer to: Northwest Arabian Arabic, or Bedawi Arabic Beja language, also called Bedawi Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic Betawi (disambiguation)...
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  • PAA *fâzw- (Ehret), *fṭ (Takács), *fVdS/*-fVrS (Diakonoff): Egyptian fd-, Beja (Cushitic) faḍig, North Omotic *Peč; some scholars also connect West Chadic...
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  • Olympique de Béja (Arabic: الأولمبي الباجي), known as O Béja or simply OB for short, is a Tunisian football club based in Béja. The club was founded in...
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    Khartoum (category Articles containing Beja-language text)
    the Nubian and Egyptian god of creation. Other Beja scholars suggest Khartoum is derived from the Beja word hartoom, "meeting". Sociologist Vincent J...
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    Port Sudan (category Articles containing Beja-language text)
    Port Sudan (Arabic: بور سودان, romanized: Būr Sūdān, Beja: Bar'uut) is a city and port on the Red Sea in eastern Sudan, and the capital of Red Sea State...
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    Grammatical conjugation (category Articles containing Beja-language text)
    agreement, along with contrasting verbal conjugation, can be found from Beja (person agreement affixes in bold): wun.tu.wi, “you (fem.) are big” hadá...
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  • BEJ (category Articles containing Indonesian-language text)
    Ottoman title 13258 Bej, a minor planet bej, ISO 639-3 code for the Beja language Jakarta Stock Exchange (Indonesian: Bursa Efek Jakarta) BEJ48, a Chinese...
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    Hedareb people (category Beja people)
    a subgroup of the Beja. They are more diverse than the other Eritrean ethicities; one subgroup speaks the traditional Beja language, which belongs to...
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    Demographics of Sudan (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Arabized African tribes). Nubian language in far north, (mainly spoken by Nubians of Mahas, Dongola and Halfa). Beja language known as Bedawit in far east...
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    The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic...
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    Marehan (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
    Ariab district. The Amarar are said to speak the purest form of the Beja language. The name Marehan is derived from the Harari word maraxa, which means...
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    Other Afro-Asiatic languages belonging to the Cushitic branch are also widely spoken in the country. The latter include Afar, Beja, Blin, and Saho. In...
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    the linguistic relationship between the modern Beja language and the ancient Cushitic Blemmyan language which dominated Lower Nubia and that the Blemmyes...
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    ancestors of modern-day speakers of Beja; there appears to be linguistic continuity, suggesting that a language ancestral to Beja was spoken in the Nile Valley...
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    Musa (2007). A learner's grammar of Beja (East Sudan): grammar, texts and vocabulary (Beja-English and English-Beja). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. p. 10. ISBN 978-3896455727...
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  • Amarar tribe (category Beja people)
    came from Adal. The Amarar are said to speak the purest form of the Beja language. Burckhardt, John Lewis (1819). Travels in Nubia: by the late John Lewis...
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    Headless men (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    tongue (Beja language). Although this theory had long been neglected, this etymology has come into acceptance, alongside the identification of the Beja people...
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    the single language of Beja (c. 3 million speakers), the Agaw languages, Eastern Cushitic, and Southern Cushitic. Only one Cushitic language, Oromo, has...
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  • Federation. The AF Beja administers lower tier football in the district of Beja. Associação de Futebol de Beja, commonly referred to as AF Beja, is the governing...
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