Demographics of the Arab League
On the other hand, Arabic is divided into over 27 dialects. Almost every Arab state has at least one local dialect of its own. they can be divided into 5 major branches, the Peninsula Arabic, which is the Arabic used in the Arabian peninsula, with around 9 main dialects, Arabic of the Nile Valley, which includes the Masri, Saedi, Sudanese and Chadic Arabic, the Arabic of the Fertile Crescent, which includes the Bedawi, Levant Arabic, Iraqi Arabic and North Mesopotamian Arabic, the Magharbi Arabic, which includes the Dialects used in Mauritania, Morocco, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia, also another category of Arabic is the other isolated dialects of Arabic, like the Judeo-Arabic, Mediterranean Arabic, Nubi Arabic, and the juba Arabic, which have greatly been affected by these communities' own pronunciation, culture and native tongue.
Hejazi Arabic phonology
Strictly speaking, there are two main groups of dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the urban population "" originally spoken in the major cities of Jeddah, Medina, Mecca and Ta'if who constitute the majority, and another by the bedouin or rural populations. However, the term most often applies to the urban variety which is discussed in this article.Hejazi consonant inventory mostly depends on the speaker, urban speakers use 26 with no interdental phonemes or 28 phonemes with the phonemes and being used partially due to the influence of Modern Standard Arabic and neighboring dialects, in addition to the marginal phoneme and two foreign phonemes ⟨پ⟩ and ⟨ڤ⟩ used by a number of speakers. In general, Hejazi speakers pronounce as or merge it with depending on the word, with the classicized pronunciation being an optional allophone, as it is always used when pronouncing the letter's name (), and when reading or speaking Standard or Classical Arabic. On the other hand rural or bedouin speakers use 27 consonant phonemes completely merging the phoneme /dˤ/ with /ðˤ/ .