Gulf Arabic

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Gulf Arabic (خليجي <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Ḵalījī local pronunciation: [χɐˈliːdʒi] or اللهجة الخليجية <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">il-lahja il-Ḵalījīya, local pronunciation: [(ɪ)lˈlɐhdʒɐ lχɐˈliːdʒiːjɐ]) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia[1] around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, eastern Saudi Arabia, northern Oman, and by some Iranian Arabs.[2]

Gulf Arabic
خليجي, <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Ḵalījī
اللهجة الخليجية, <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">il-lahja il-Ḵalījīya
Pronunciation[χɐˈliːdʒi]
Native toBahrain, Qatar, UAE, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Oman, Kuwait
Native speakers6.8 million  (2016)e19
Language family
Writing systemArabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3afb
Árabe del Golfo.PNG

References

Citations

Sources

  • Awde, Nicholas; Smith, Kevin (2003), Arabic dictionary, London: Bennett & Bloom, ISBN 1-898948-20-8
  • Frawley, William (2003), International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, vol. 1, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195139771
  • Holes, Clive (2001), Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Glossary, Brill, ISBN 9004107630
  • Qafisheh, Hamdi A. (1977), A short reference grammar of Gulf Arabic, Tucson, Az.: University of Arizona Press, ISBN 0-8165-0570-5

Further reading