Beja is spoken by about 1.2 million people in parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea. Beja is also known as Bedawi, Bedauye or To Bedawie. It is generally classified as a North Cushitic language, although some scholars believe it belongs to its own branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
There is a method of writing Beja with the Latin alphabet used in Eritrea and taught in schools there. It was developed by a Mr and Mrs Wedekind, linguistics from SIL, in cooperation with the Eritrean authorities. A method of writing Beja with the Arabic alphabet is used to some extent in Sudan, though has no official recognition.
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Information about the Beja alphabet and pronunciation compiled by Wolfram Siegel, with additions by Michael Peter Füstumum and Bob Offer-Westort.
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Information about the Beja language and people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beja_language
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedscha_%28Sprache%29
http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/Vanhove/Beja_Bergen.pdf
http://bejaculture.org/ZABORSKI.html
http://orvillejenkins.com/profiles/beja.html
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