Sudanese Arabs are by far the largest ethnic group in Sudan; they are almost entirely Muslims and the majority speak Sudanese Arabic.
In common with much of the rest of the Arab world, the gradual process of Arabization in Sudan led to the predominance of the Arabic language and aspects of Arab culture, leading to the shift among a majority of Sudanese today to an Arab ethnic identity. This process was furthered both by the spread of Islam and an emigration to Sudan of genealogical Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula, and their intermarriage with the Arabized indigenous peoples of the country.
Sudan consists of numerous other Arab tribes such as the Shaigya, Ja'alin, Shukria, Rashaida, Qahtanites, Arakieen and many more, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt said that the true bedouins from the eastern desert of Sudan like the Ja'alin are exactly like the Bedouin of eastern Arabia. Non-Arab but often Arabized ethnic groups include the Nubians, Copts, Beja.
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