• Gulf Pidgin Arabic is an Arabic-based pidgin which is primarily used by migrant workers in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. The variety was first published...
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  • the modern era, pidgin Arabic is most notably used by the large number of migrants to Arab countries. Examples include: Gulf Pidgin Arabic, used by mostly...
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    which is closely related to other variants of Gulf Pidgin Arabic, amalgamates elements of Emirati Arabic with other languages like English, Farsi, Hindi...
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  • Sinhalese. Since the oil boom of the 1970s, several forms of Pidgin Arabic, such as Gulf Pidgin Arabic, evolved to become a popular form of communication due...
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    Algonquian–Basque pidgin, also known as Souriquois, was a Basque-based pidgin spoken by Basque whalers and various Algonquian peoples. It was spoken around the Gulf of...
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    Kuwait (category Pages with Gulf Arabic IPA)
    Kuwait-related articles /kʊˈweɪt/ ; Arabic: ٱلْكُوَيْت, al-Kuwayt, Gulf Arabic pronunciation: [ɪl‿ɪkweːt] or [lɪkweːt] Arabic: دَوْلَة ٱلْكُوَيْت, Dawla al-Kuwayt...
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    Qatari Arabic (endonym: قطري عربي, romanized: qiṭarī ʻarabī; Arabic: العربية القطرية, romanized: al-ʻarabiyyah al-qaṭariyyah) is a variety of Gulf Arabic spoken...
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    bājirmi) Bimbashi Arabic † Turku Arabic, pidgin † Bongor Arabic, pidgin Egyptian varieties are influenced by the Coptic language. Egyptian Arabic (مصرى – maṣri)...
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  • African Pidgin English (multiple varieties) (Guinea Coast) Kru Pidgin English Liberian Interior Pidgin English Nigerian Pidgin Cameroonian Pidgin English...
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    The Arabic alphabet, or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left...
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    Najdi Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة النجدية) is the group of Arabic varieties originating from the Najd region of Saudi Arabia. Outside of Saudi Arabia, it is...
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    Bickerton, colloquial Arabic dialects arose from pidginized Arabic formed from contact between Arabs and conquered peoples. Pidginization and subsequent creolization...
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  • List of creole languages (category Pidgins and creoles)
    from which their vocabulary is drawn. Bongor Arabic Juba Arabic Nubi Arabic Nagamese creole, ("Naga Pidgin") is an Assamese-lexified creole language which...
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  • in Nigeria. Varieties and Arabic-based pidgins function as the lingua francas of Sudan (Sudanese Arabic), Chad (Chadian Arabic; mainly in the northern half...
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    Indonesian Arabic (Arabic: العربية الاندونيسية, romanized: al-‘Arabiyya al-Indūnīsiyya, Indonesian: Bahasa Arab Indonesia) is a variety of Arabic spoken in...
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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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    Demographics of Qatar (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    younger generation. As a result of mass migration, a South Asian pidgin form of Qatari Arabic has emerged in modern times. English is the de facto second language...
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  • al-Jummal (Arabic: حِسَاب ٱلْجُمَّل, ḥisāb al-jummal), are a decimal alphabetic numeral system/alphanumeric code, in which the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet...
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  • Papua. Despite the small number of speakers, it is the basis of a local pidgin. It has 18 consonants and 5 vowels. Onin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)...
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    States, Australia, and the Gulf states. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written...
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    Indonesian language (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Malay verb amuk (to run out of control, to rage). Indonesian is neither a pidgin nor a creole since its characteristics do not meet any of the criteria for...
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    the Americas, and Oceania, including multiple dialects, creole languages, pidgin languages, and sign languages originating in what is now the United States...
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    pidgins have existed. In the 16th century, Basque sailors used a Basque–Icelandic pidgin in their contacts with Iceland. The Algonquian–Basque pidgin...
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    Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It lies adjacent to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing a border with Ivory...
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    /q/ is 'k' Loans from Arabic: Phonemes which occur only in Arabic loans may be pronounced distinctly by speakers who know Arabic. Otherwise they tend to...
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    (150). doi:10.1515/ijsl.2001.035. ISSN 0165-2516. Smith, Ian (2008). "Pidgins, Creoles, and Bazaar Hindi". In Kachru, Braj B; Kachru, Yamuna; Sridhar...
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  • Tunisian Arabic aec – Saidi Arabic afb – Gulf Arabic apc – Levantine Arabic apd – Sudanese Arabic arb – Standard Arabic arq – Algerian Arabic ars – Najdi...
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    Urdu (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    some Urdu texts can be composed of 70% Perso-Arabic loanwords just as some Persian texts can have 70% Arabic vocabulary. Some Pakistani Urdu speakers have...
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  • Pidgin Japanese: Common Characteristics of Restricted Pidgins" (PDF). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa: 55. Retrieved 15 September 2024. A pidginized variety...
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  • (1972) makes use of a diaphonic approach in discussing the phonology of the pidgin English used by Japanese immigrants on Hawaiian plantations. Both Haugen...
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