Beja language

Beja
Bidhaawyeet, Tubdhaawi, تُبڈاوِ
Native to	Sudan, Eritrea, Egypt
Region	Red Sea
Ethnicity	Beja
Native speakers	2.76 million (2022–2023)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic North Beja
Dialects	Hadendoa Hadareb Amarar Bisharin Beni-Amer
Writing system	Latin alphabet (limited use) Arabic alphabet (limited use)
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Eritrea  Sudan
Language codes
ISO 639-2	bej
ISO 639-3	bej
Glottolog	beja1238

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 inhabit parts of Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea. In 2022 there were 2,550,000 Beja speakers in Sudan, and 121,000 Beja speakers in Eritrea according to Ethnologue. As of 2023 there are an estimated 88,000 Beja speakers in Egypt. The total number of speakers in all three countries is 2,759,000.^[2]