Gulf Spoken Arabic is used in parts of Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Arabic languages/dialects shown elsewhere:
| "standard" Arabic, Algerian, Baharna, Egyptian, Hassaniyya, Iraqi / Mesopotamian, Lebanese-Syrian, Maltese, Moroccan, Palestinian-Jordanian, Sudanese, and Tunisian |
Arabic fonts in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts
Language information at Wikipedia and Ethnologue
Writing system information at Omniglot and Wikipedia
Alternate names for Gulf Spoken Arabic include Khaliji and Gulf Arabic
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| The four essential travel phrases in English: 1) Where is my room? 2) Where is the beach? 3) Where is the bar? 4) Don't touch me there! |
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