Shuweihat tribe

Shuweihat
Regions with significant populations
Sudan, Chad
Languages
Sudanese Arabic

Shuweihat are the members of an ethnic minority in Chad and Sudan, which belongs to the Ja'alin tribal confederation.[1] Most of them are Sunni Muslims. They are considered closely related to the Bedayria tribe.[2] They speak the Sudanese dialect of the Arabic language.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sudan Notes and Records Volume 12, 0 1929". p. 210. Retrieved 31 March 2026.
  2. ↑ MacMichael, H. A. (1922). A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: And Some Account of the People who Preceded them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Dárfūr: Volume 2 (PDF). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-1108010269. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  3. ↑ H. A. MacMichael (1922), p. 202-203.


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