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{{Infobox language
|name=Beja
|nativename=بداوية ''Badāwīyä''
|states=[[Sudan]], [[Eritrea]], [[Egypt]]
|speakers=1,178,000
|ethnicity=[[Beja people|Beja]], [[Beni-Amer]]
|familycolor=Negro-Egyptian
|fam2=[[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]]
|iso2=bej|iso3=bej}}

'''Beja''' (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) or '''North Cushitic''' is an [[Negro-Egyptian languages|Negro-Egyptian language]] of the southern coast of the [[Red Sea]], spoken by about two million nomads, the [[Beja people|Beja]], in parts of [[Egypt]], [[Sudan]], and [[Eritrea]].<ref>{{harvnb|Gordon|2005}}</ref>

==Classification==
It is usually seen as [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]], but several scholars, notably [[Robert Hetzron]] (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Negro-Egyptian.

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{citation|editor-first=Raymond G.. Jr.|editor-last=Gordon|year=2005|title=Ethnologue:  Languages of the World|edition=15th|publication-place=Dallas|publisher=Summer Institute of Linguistics|chapter=Beja|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bej}}

==Further reading==
* Almkvist, Herman N. .  1881-1885.  ''Die Bischari-Sprache''. 3 vols. Uppsala.
* Václav Blažek. 2003. "Beǧa language", in: S. Uhlig et al. (eds.), ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica'' Vol. 1: A-C (Wiesbadn: Harrassowitz), pp.&nbsp;519b-521b.
* [[Richard Hudson|Hudson, Richard A.]].  1974.  "A structural sketch of Beja," ''African Language Studies''.  Ed. D.W. Arnott.  London:  School of Oriental and African Studies.  Pages 111-142.
* Hudson, Richard A. .  1976.  "Beja", in: [[Lionel Bender (linguist)|M. Lionel Bender]] et al. (eds.), ''The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia'' (East Lansing:  Michigan University, African Studies Centre), pp.&nbsp;97–131.
* Reinisch, Leo.  1893-1895.  ''Die Beḍauye-Sprache in Nordost-Afrika 2''. 3 vols.  Vienna:  F. Tempsky.
* Reinisch, Leo. 1895. ''Wörterbuch der Beḍauye-Sprache''. Vienna.
* Roper, E. M. 1927. "The Poetry of the Haḍenḍiwa", in: ''Sudan Notes and Records'' 10, pp.&nbsp;147–158.
* Roper, E. M. 1928. ''Tu Beḍawiɛ: An Elementary Handbook for the use of Sudan Government Officials''. Hertford, Herts, England: Stephen Austin and Sons, LTD. Oriental and General Printers.
* Voigt, Rainer. 1998. "Zur Gliederung des Kuschitischen: das Beḍauye und das Restkuschitische", in: I. Fiedler, C. Griefenow-Mewis & B. Reineke (eds.), ''Afrikanische Sprachen in Brennpunkt der Forschung: linguistische Beiträge zum 12. Afrikanistentag, Berlin, 3-6 Oktober 1996'' (Köln 1998), pp.&nbsp;309–324.
* Vycichl, Werner. 1953. "Der bestimmte Artikel in der Bedja-Sprache", in: ''Muséon'' 66, pp.&nbsp;373–379.
* Wedekind, Klaus and Charlotte Wedekind. 2007. ''A Learner's Grammar of Beja.'' Koeln: Koeppe Verlag.
* Zaborski, Andrzej. 1975. ''The Verb in Cushitic''. Warszawa.
* Zaborski, Andrzej. 1989. "Der Wortschatz der Bedscha-Sprache. Eine vergleichende Analyse", in: ''Ausgewählte Vorträge. Deutscher Orientalistentag'' (Stuttgart; ZDMG Supplement VII), pp.&nbsp;573–591.
* Zaborski, Andrzej. 1997. "Problems of the Beja Present Seven Years Ago", in: ''Lingua Posnaniensis'' 39, pp.&nbsp;145–153.

==External links==
*[http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Bedawi PanAfrican L10n page on Bedawi]
*[http://www.kwedekind.de/index.htm] - a Cuchiticist linguist site, a number of papers on Beja


[[Category:Cushitic languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Sudan]]
[[Category:Languages of Eritrea]]
[[Category:Languages of Egypt]]