Beja (also called Bedawi, Bedauye, To Bedawie) is an Afro-Asiatic language of the southern coast of the Red Sea, spoken by about two million nomads in parts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea.

It is usually seen as Cushitic, but several scholars, notably Robert Hetzron (1980), have regarded it as an independent branch of Afro-Asiatic.

The ISO 639-2 code for Beja is bej, the SIL code is BEI.

See also

• Ababde

External links

• An electronic newspaper in Beja ياربُ تِكْوكْوه
• A Beja grammar (in Arabic)
• BEI on Ethnologue