Kuwaiti Arabic
Variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in Kuwait / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Kuwaiti Persian.
Kuwaiti (Arabic: كويتي, romanized: Kuwaytī, [kweːti]) is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Kuwait. Kuwaiti Arabic shares many phonetic features unique to Gulf dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula.[3] Due to Kuwait's soap opera industry, knowledge of Kuwaiti Arabic has spread throughout the Arabic-speaking world and become recognizable even to people in countries such as Tunisia and Jordan.[4]: p. 113 [5]
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Kuwaiti Arabic | |
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كويتي | |
Pronunciation | [kwe:ti] |
Native to | Grane, nowadays State of Kuwait |
Native speakers | 2.55 million (2021)[1] |
Arabic, with addition of 3 or 4 letters.[2] | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Not official in any country |
Regulated by | Not recognised as a language |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | afb |
ISO 639-3 | afb |
Glottolog | kuwa1251 |
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