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Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making it one of the five most spoken languages in the world. Currently, 22 countries are member states of the Arab League (as well as 5 countries were granted an observer status) which was ...
Gulf Arabic or Khaleeji (خليجي Ḵalījī local pronunciation: [χɑˈliːdʒiː] or اللهجة الخليجية il-lahja il-Ḵalījīya, local pronunciation: [(ɪ)lˈlæhdʒæ lχɑˈliːdʒiːjæ]) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia [2] around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, southern Iraq, [3] eastern Saudi ...
The most obvious phonetic difference between the two groups is the pronunciation of the letter ق qaf, which is pronounced as a voiced /ɡ/ in the urban varieties of the Arabian Peninsula (e.g. the Hejazi dialect in the ancient cities of Mecca and Medina) as well as in the Bedouin dialects across all Arabic-speaking countries, but is voiceless ...
BlankMap-World.svg by Canuckguy and many others (see File history) Own work based on: Arabic Varieties Map.svg by Goran tek-en Maps template-en.svg by Sting BlankMap-World gray.svg by LivingShadow Information from: Main source: Eberhard, David M., Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2022. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. Twenty ...
A central-eastern dialect group originating in the center, that spread with the migration of Arab tribes. This group includes the dialects of most bedouin tribes in the peninsula, spanning an area extending from the Syrian Desert to the Empty Quarter. Its most notable examples are Najdi Arabic and Gulf Arabic. The following varieties are ...
Corrections to peninsular dialects, and added areas for Anatolian Arabic and Maltese: 14:16, 4 September 2020: 1,681 × 950 (355 KB) Ain92: slightly more orange color for Sa'idi to distinguish from Shihhi: 21:10, 1 September 2020: 1,681 × 950 (372 KB) Ain92: sorry, forgot to change Egyptian in the legend
Khaleeji (Arabic: خليجي), may refer to: The native Arabs from the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, especially those from the Gulf Cooperation Council states; Culture of Eastern Arabia, associated with Arab states of the Persian Gulf; Gulf Arabic, a dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia's coast of the Persian Gulf
Kuwaiti (Arabic: كويتي, romanized: Kuwaytī, [kweːti]) is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Kuwait. Kuwaiti Arabic shares many phonetic features unique to Gulf dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula. [3] Due to Kuwait's soap opera industry, knowledge of Kuwaiti Arabic has spread throughout the Arabic-speaking world and become recognizable ...