Gesproken in Tsjaad en aangrenzende delen van Soedan, het noordoosten van Nigeria en het noorden van Kameroen. De voornaamste Sahel-Arabische variëteit, gebruikt als lingua franca tot ver buiten Arabische gemeenschappen.
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.