Parlé au Tchad et dans des parties contiguës du Soudan, du nord-est du Nigeria et du nord du Cameroun. Principale variété d'arabe sahélien, utilisée comme lingua franca bien au-delà des communautés arabes.
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.