[6][2] This variety is spoken by the Awlad Ali tribe,[7][8] who settled in the edges of Lake Maryut and west of Bihera beginning in the 17th century from the region of Jebel Akhdar (Libya).
[13] However, the classification of North African Bedouin dialects into Hilalian, Sulaimitian, and Ma’qilian groups is not uncontroversial, and is based primarily on socio-historical and geographical considerations.
The form hāḏ̣ayīəhi is also used with the suffix -yīəhi: (this, these) (that, those) The following interrogative pronouns are used: There are two types of strong perfect stems, CiCáC (a-type) and CCiC (i-type).
Examples of i-type perfects are šrib, rkib, zʿil, smiʿ, ʿrif, gdir, kbir, kṯir, tʿib, lbis, ybis.
[9] Some perfect conjugations are shown below: There are three types of strong imperfect stems, CCiC (i-type), CCəC (ə-type), and CCaC (a-type).