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Bahrani Arabic (also known as Bahrani or Baharna Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken by the Baharna in Eastern Arabia and Oman. [2] In Bahrain , the dialect is primarily spoken in Shia villages and some parts of Manama .
Bahraini Gulf Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بحرينية, romanized: Lahjat Baḥraynīyah) is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Bahrain.It is spoken by Bahraini Sunnis (Arabs and Ajams) and is a dialect which is most similar to the dialect spoken in Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE.
Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. [1] Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy).
Bahrain is the dual form of Arabic word Bahr (meaning literally "sea"), so al-Bahrayn originally means literally "the two seas".However, the name has been lexicalised as a feminine proper noun and does not follow the grammatical rules for duals; thus its form is always Bahrayn and never Bahrān, the expected nominative form.
The origin of the Baharna is debated; [2] there are different theories regarding their origins. Several Western scholars believe the Baharna originate from Bahrain's ancient population and pre-Islamic population which consisted of partially-Christianized Arabs, [7] [8] Aramaic-speaking agriculturalists, [7] [9] [10] Persian Zoroastrians, and a small amount of Jews. [2]
Peninsular Arabic are the varieties of Arabic spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula. This includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Southern Iran, Southern Iraq and Jordan. [2] The modern dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula are closer to Classical Arabic than elsewhere in the Arab ...
/ʔaħmad Ahmad xarrab ruined- 3msg l-beːt/ the-house /ʔaħmad xarrab l-beːt/ Ahmad ruined- 3msg the-house 'Ahmad ruined the house' When forming interrogative statements, any of these elements can be replaced by interrogative words. Holes (1990) identifies five such words in Gulf Arabic: من ('who') /ʃinhu/ ('what') كيف /keːf/ ('how') ليش /leːʃ/ ('why') متى /mita/ ('when ...
Saudi Arabia lies to the west and is connected to Bahrain by the King Fahd Causeway. Iran lies 200 km (124 mi) to the north of Bahrain, across the Gulf. The peninsula of Qatar is to the southeast across the Gulf of Bahrain. The planned Qatar Bahrain Causeway will link Bahrain and Qatar and become the world's longest marine causeway.