Gulf Arabic
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| 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 | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | afb | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gulf Arabic (also known as Khaliji, al-lahjat al-khalijiya اللهجة الخليجية) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken around both shores of the Persian Gulf, mainly in Kuwait, eastern and central 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 (jeeb "bring" (masc), read as "yeeb").
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