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Gulf Arabic

Gulf Arabic
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 
Writing system: Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: afb

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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