Eastern Libyan Arabic

Eastern Libyan Arabic (Arabic: ليبي شرقي) or Cyrenaican Arabic is a variety of Libyan Arabic spoken in the Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya. The variety is centred in Benghazi and Bayda and extends beyond the borders to the east and shares the same dialect with western Egypt, Western Egyptian Bedawi Arabic, with between 90,000 and 474,000 speakers in Egypt. It is considered a nomadic Sulaymi subdialect of the Hilalian dialects.