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Gulf Arabic
| Gulf Arabic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Kuwait, eastern part of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, parts of Oman | |
| Total speakers: | — | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South-Central Semitic Arabic Gulf Arabic |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | afb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gulf Arabic is a variety of the Arabic language spoken around both shores of the Persian Gulf, mainly in Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and parts of Oman. Some notable characteristics that set it apart from other Bedouin dialects is the small number of Persian loanwords, and a pronunciation of k as ch ("kalb" dog, read as "chalb"); and, in some instances, the pronunciation j as y (jannah "paradise", read as "yennah").
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| Varieties of Arabic | |
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| Pre-Muslim conquests | Ancient North Arabian† (Safaitic†, Lihyanitic†, Thamudic†, Hasaitic†) · Classical Arabic |
| Modern Standard Variety | Literary Arabic |
| Maghrebi Arabic | Moroccan Arabic ·
Algerian Arabic · Tunisian Arabic ·
Andalusian Arabic† · Libyan Arabic ·
Jebli Arabic · Jijel Arabic · Saharan
Arabic · Hassānīya · Maltese language ·
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| Levantine Arabic | Lebanese Arabic · Syrian Arabic · North Syrian Arabic · Palestinian Arabic · Cypriot Maronite Arabic |
| Arabian Arabic | Gulf Arabic · Bahrani Arabic · Najdi Arabic · Hejazi Arabic · Shargi Arabic · Yemeni Arabic (Hadhrami Arabic) |
| Iraqi Arabic | Baghdad Arabic |
| Egyptian Arabic | Cairene Arabic · Sa'idi Arabic |
| Sudanese Arabic | Sudanese Arabic · Nigerian Arabic . Chadian Arabic |
| Peripheries | Khuzestani Arabic · Shirvani Arabic† · Central Asian Arabic |
| Judeo-Arabic | Judeo-Moroccan · Judeo-Yemenite · Baghdad Arabic (Jewish) |
| Creoles | Nubi language · Babalia Creole Arabic · Juba Arabic |
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