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    Peninsular Arabic are the varieties of Arabic spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula. This includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United...
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    Yemeni Arabic (Arabic: لهجة يمنية, romanized: Lahja Yamaniyyah) is a cluster of varieties of Arabic spoken in Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia. It is...
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    with most Peninsular and Mesopotamian dialects.[citation needed] /ɮˤ/ ⟨ض⟩ has merged to /ðˤ/ ⟨ظ⟩. Historically, /q/ became [ɡ] in Gulf Arabic. Due to influence...
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    PTCP.3SG.M walk.IPFV.3SG.M 'I am walking' Varieties of Arabic Peninsular Arabic Najdi Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Ingham (1986), p. 274. Al...
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    Hejazi Arabic or Hijazi Arabic (HA) (Arabic: حجازي, romanized: ḥijāzī, Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [ħɪˈdʒaːzi]), also known as West Arabian Arabic, is a...
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    Arabic varieties are classified into five groups: Maghrebi, Egyptian (including Egyptian and Sudanese), Mesopotamian, Levantine and Peninsular Arabic...
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    loanwords are listed in al-Saqqaf (2006). Varieties of Arabic Peninsular Arabic Hadhrami Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Suroiyah, Evi Nurus; Zakiyah...
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    Varieties of Arabic Peninsular Arabic Omani Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Glover, Bonnie C. (1988). The morphophonology of Muscat Arabic. University...
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    example 'inzaine (OK?). Varieties of Arabic Peninsular Arabic Bahrani Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) "Arabic, Baharna Spoken". Ethnologue. Retrieved...
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  • Arabic, as opposed to Western Arabic (Maghrebi Arabic or Darija) and includes Mesopotamian Arabic and Peninsular Arabic, along with Egyptian Arabic,...
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    sound [ə] may also occur as a lax realization of short vowels. Peninsular Arabic Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Davey 2016, Abstract. "639 Identifier...
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    varieties of Arabic, including its standard form of Literary Arabic, known as Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. This distinction...
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  • variations. Ta’izzi-Adeni Arabic is classified as a dialect of Yemeni Arabic, itself a variation of the broader Peninsular Arabic, and is native to the areas...
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    macrolanguage Arabic. Sedentary vernaculars (also called dialects) are traditionally classified into five groups according to shared features: Peninsular, Mesopotamian...
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    Shihhi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الشحية, romanized: Al-Lahjah Al-Shihhiyya, also known as Shehhi, Khasabi, Musandam Arabic, or Ruʾūs al-Jibāl Arabic) is a...
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  • of Arabic Peninsular Arabic Northwest Arabian Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Palva, Heikki. "Northwest Arabian Arabic". Encyclopedia of Arabic Language...
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  • The urban dialect originates from the spoken dialect of Arabian Peninsular Arabic speakers who migrated to the area in the 18th century, being strongly...
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    The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ʾabǧadiyyah l-ʿarabiyyah [æl.ʔæb.d͡ʒæˈdɪj.jæ l.ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة...
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  • Al Oud cemetery (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    royals of the second and current Saudi states. The word "al-ʿŪud", in Peninsular Arabic means "elder (older person)", likely referring to King Abdulaziz,...
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    Saudis (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Peninsula. Saudis speak one of the dialects of Peninsular Arabic, including the Hejazi, Najdi, Gulf and Southern Arabic dialects (which includes Bareqi), as a...
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    The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing...
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  • Bareqi Arabic (Arabic: لهجة بارقية) is one of the dialects spoken in Saudi Arabia. It is spoken in many towns and villages in and around Bareq. Bareqi...
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    Allah (redirect from God (Arabic))
    Allah (/ˈælə, ˈɑːlə, əˈlɑː/; Arabic: ﷲ‎, romanized: Allāh, IPA: [ʔaɫ.ɫaːh] ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally...
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  • Al Gosaibi (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    free dictionary. Al-Gosaibi, Al Gosaibi or Algosaibi (Arabic: القصيبي) is a Peninsular Arabic surname. Notable people with this family name include:...
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  • the Arabian Peninsula, and their dialect is consequently close to Peninsular Arabic (Najdi). Note that although claiming a Bedouin ancestry sounds prestigious[according...
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    Qatari Arabic (Arabic: قطري عربي, romanized: al-ʻArabiyyah al-Qațariyyah) is a variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in Qatar characterized by its distinct phonetic...
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  • Ḫāʾ (redirect from Kha (Arabic))
    Standard Arabic. The pronunciation of خ is very similar to German, Irish, and Polish unpalatalised "ch", Russian х (Cyrillic Kha), Greek χ and Peninsular Spanish...
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    Semitic languages (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    Old Arabic Pre-classical Arabic Arabic Classical Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Mashriqi Arabic (Eastern Arabic) (dialect continuum) Peninsular Arabic (dialect...
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  • regions where Arabic is spoken and the type of communities speaking it. The vernacular varieties of Arabic include: Peninsular Arabic Hejazi Arabic (urban cities...
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    in the region. Qatar, the only peninsular country in the Persian Gulf on the larger peninsula, is home to the Arabic-language television station Al Jazeera...
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