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Gulf Arabic (also known as Khaliji, Qatari) 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 Persianloanwords, 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"). UAE redirects here. ... A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family (Languages of Africa) with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). ... 14th century BC diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ... 14th century BC diplomatic letter in Akkadian, found in Tell Amarna. ... 12th century Hebrew Bible script The Semitic languages are a family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people across much of the Middle East, where they originated, and North and East Africa. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Writing systems of the world today. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and others. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ... The Arabic language is classified as a Semitic language. ... Arabic redirects here. ... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... A Bedouin man in Sinai Peninsula Bedouin, (from the Arabic (), pl. ... Farsi redirects here. ... A loanword (or loan word) is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. ...
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GulfArabic.com - Gulf Arabic Online Course with Audio
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Probably the most divergent of all Arabic dialects is Cypriot Maronite Arabic, still spoken by most of the 130 elderly Maronite Catholics in Kormakiti (Korucam) in Northern Cyprus, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. ... Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq. ... Iraqi Arabic is a dialect of Arabic used in Iraq. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Arabian Arabic is a term used to refer to several Arabic dialects and dialect-groups spoken in modern-day Saudi Arabia. ... Bahrani Arabic is a dialect of the Arabic language spoken by the Bahranis Shia of Bahrain and some parts of Saudi Eastern Province, and also in Oman. ... Najdi Arabic (Arabic: ‎) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the desert regions of central and eastern Saudi Arabia. ... 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Yemenite Jews (×ªÖ¼Öµ×™×žÖ¸× Ö´×™, Standard Hebrew Temani, Tiberian Hebrew TêmÄnî; plural ×ªÖ¼Öµ×™×žÖ¸× Ö´×™×, Standard Hebrew Temanim, Tiberian Hebrew TêmÄnîm) are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen (תֵּימָן far south, Standard Hebrew Teman, Tiberian Hebrew TêmÄn), on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. ... Baghdad Arabic Jewish is the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq. ... Jewish Baghdad Arabic is the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of Baghdad and other towns of Southern Iraq. ... The Nubi language (also called Ki-Nubi) is a Sudanese Arabic-based creole language spoken in Uganda around Bombo and Kenya around Kibera by the descendants of Emin Pashas Sudanese soldiers, settled there by the British. ... Juba Arabic is a lingua franca spoken mainly in Equatoria Province in Southern Sudan, and derives its name from the town of Juba, Sudan. ...
Palestinian Arabic is a Levantine Arabic dialect subgroup spoken by Palestinian Arabs.
Arye Levin, A Grammar of the Arabic Dialect of Jerusalem [in Hebrew].
Frank A. Rice, Eastern Arabic-English, English-Eastern Arabic: dictionary and phrasebook for the spoken Arabic of Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine/Israel and Syria.
The expressions Arabic and Classical Arabic usually refer to the pure Arabic language which is, according to Arabic speakers, both the language of present-day media across North Africa and the Middle East (from Morocco to Iraq) and the language of the Qur'an.
While Arabic is strongly associated with Islam (and is the language of salat), it is also spoken by Arab Christians, Oriental Jews, and indeed Iraqi Mandaeans; and, of course, the vast majority of the world's Muslims do not actually speak it; they only know some fixed phrases of Arabic, as used in Islamic prayer.
Arabic is a Semitic language, fairly closely related to, for instance, the Hebrew language and the Aramaic language.
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