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The Hedareb or T'bdawe Hedareb, t'badwe, to-bedawye and bedawi may refer to the people or their language. Beja is an Arabic name for the language; Hedareb may be a corruption of Hadarma, "people of the Hadhramaut". See and are a Cushitic peoples ethnic group native to northwestern Eritrea. They are a subgroup of the Beja people. They are more diverse than the other Eritrean ethnicities; one subgroup speaks the traditional Beja language, which belongs to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, while another is more closely related to Sudanese Hadendoa. They are among the least-researched groups in Eritrea.
The Hedareb people live in northwestern Eritrea and extend as far as the borders with east Sudan. Nomadic or semi-nomadic Pastoralism, they typically migrate seasonally with their herds of , and sheep.
Sociologist Abdulkader Saleh Mohammad writes that the Hedareb have been excluded from state conceptions of Eritrean nationhood and have become a marginalized group with many members who do not feel connected to the Eritrean nation-state.
In the nineteenth century, marked by chains of existed among Hedareb groups; unlike those among neighboring groups, they were rarely resolved by the payment of blood money, possibly because the Hedareb had fewer trading practices. Also distinctively, Uxoricide was traditionally punished by death, while filicide went unpunished. Rape of a noblewoman by a serf was punishable by death, while rape of serfs by nobles was tolerated.
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