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Hijazi Arabic is a language with over 6 million native speakers in Saudi Arabia and Eritrea, and is also the most widely understood second language among Arabic speakers on the Arabian Peninsula. It is in active use on radio and television in Saudi Arabia and in social media online. It is sufficiently distinct in its grammar, vocabulary, and orthography from Modern Standard Arabic to warrant its inclusion, to as equal a degree as Egyptian Arabic which has at present its own Wikipedia--Dirtylittlefingers (talk) 21:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose -- What a absurd coincidences! Migration season to the absurd. -- صالح (talk) 19:50, 5 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose As long as there is an Arabic encyclopedia, there is no benefit from this project. --عبد الله (talk) 06:19, 7 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose -- I am from Hijaz and my language is Arabic, it is not a separate language.--Bander7799 (talk) 08:47, 7 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose All speakers of Hijazi understand and speak Arabic as an official language. So I'm definitely against these projects.--Faisal talk 15:44, 7 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose No need to create too many Arabic dialects wikis, their users can and should contribute to ar:. --117.13.95.80 09:09, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose It's a dialect of Arabic, this is why we have an Arabic Wikipedia. Random Wikimedian (talk) 13:55, 2 October 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Support --Hijazi is a language with a different phonology, its grammar is quite different along with its vocabulary.--Al-khataei (talk) 14:57, 14 September 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose There are no Hijazi community members Saudi Arabic users are very pro-arwiki, I strongly urge lancom members to speedy veto this. --223.104.7.104 22:48, 18 December 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Oppose Just a dialect of Arabic. Fluxqi (talk) 11:19, 2 October 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
