Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic

Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, also known as Sahil Maryut Bedouin Arabic,^[3][4] is a group of Bedouin Arabic dialects spoken in Western Egypt along the Mediterranean coast, west to the Egypt–Libya border.^[2][5] Ethnologue and Glottolog classify Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic as a Libyan Arabic dialect.^[6][2]

This variety is spoken by the Awlad Ali tribe,^[7][8] who settled in the edges of Lake Maryut and west of Bihera beginning in the 17th century from the region of Jebel Akhdar (Libya).^[9] It is also spoken in Wadi El Natrun.^[10] Their dialect is phonologically, morphophonemically and morphologically closer to the Peninsular Bedouin dialects than to the adjacent Egyptian dialects.^[11] Egyptian Arabic speakers from other parts of Egypt do not understand the Awlad Ali dialect.^[12]

Western Bedouin dialects influenced the dialects of southern Upper Egypt between Asyut and Idfu, and those of the Bahariyya Oasis and Bihera.^[9]