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Name:
Arabic, Gulf Spoken
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Eastern Arabian; Gulf Arabic; Arabic (Gulf); Arabic; Gulf Spoken; Khaliji; Omani Bedawi Arabic; Bedawi; Qatari
Spoken in:
Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar
Number of speakers:
40,000 in Iraq. Population total all countries: 3,599,000
(Ethnologue)
Code:
afb
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Arabian Peninsular (arbp)
Child Dialects:
Al-Hasâ (afb-als)
Kuwaiti Hadari Arabic; Kuwayt (afb-kuw)
South Qatari Arabic (afb-sou)
Al-Hasaa (afb-alh)
North Qatari Arabic (afb-nor)
Zubair-Faau Arabic (afb-zub)
Bahraini Gulf Arabic; Baḥrayn (afb-bah)
Khamseh (afb-kha)

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