The codified supra-regional standard used across the Arab world in education, media, literature, and formal speech. Derived from Classical Arabic, it has no native speakers and no single regional home — it is acquired as a formal register layered above the spoken vernaculars. Cairo, as the historical center of Arabic publishing, broadcasting, and scholarship, serves as its conventional locus.
Das Arabisch des Sudan; bewahrt eine Reihe älterer Merkmale, die in anderen Dialekten verloren gegangen sind, und ist durch langen Kontakt mit dem Nubischen und anderen afrikanischen Sprachen geprägt.