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Juba Arabic

lingua franca spoken in South Sudan
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Summary

Juba Arabic is a language[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,196 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: South Sudan[3]
  • Instance of: creole[4], natural language[5], modern language[6]
  • Subclass of: Arabic-based pidgin and creole languages[7]
  • Has use: lingua franca[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Juba Arabic language[9]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 20,000[10], 800,000[11]
  • Replaces: Bimbashi Arabic[12]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/PGA[13], https://apics-online.info/contributions/64[14], http://data.linguistik.de/bll/bll-ontology#bll-229990134[15]
  • Ethnologue language status: 3 Wider Communication[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Viquiprojecte:Setmana de la Nació II[17]

Why It Matters

Juba Arabic has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

South Sudan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ethnologue language status → 3 Wider Communication
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    Instance of → language, creole, natural language +1
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