Talk:Bedawi

Re-redirect, maybe?
I note that this directs to Beja language. I'm not sure that this is the best destination. Lots of sources use the term 'Bedawi' for Bedouin varieties of Arabic (eg, | Glottolog, | the Joshua Project), but this term isn't actually used in scholarship for the Beja language. In Beja, the name of the language is Bidhaawyeet /biɖaːwyeːt/ or Tubdhaawi /tubɖaːwi/. The similarity is obvious, but I don't know how a person would come to look for the Beja language from 'Bedawi'. Of the grammars of Beja since 1864:


 * Werner Munzinger used To'beḍauie
 * Herman Almkvist used Tū-Beḍāwie
 * Leo Reinisch used Beḍauye
 * EM Roper used Tu Beḍawiɛ
 * Richard Hudson used Beja
 * Klaus & Charlotte Wedekind used Beja
 * Martine Vanhove uses Beja in English and Bedja in French

Anyone object to my changing the direction of this redirect? Pathawi (talk) 21:26, 6 November 2021 (UTC)