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Kuwaiti Arabic
كويتي
Pronunciation[kwe:ti]
Native toGrane, nowadays State of Kuwait
Native speakers
2.55 million (2021)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Semitic
    • West Semitic
      • Central Semitic
        • Arabic
          • Peninsular
            • Gulf
              • Kuwaiti Arabic
Writing system
Arabic, with addition of 3 or 4 letters.[2]
Official status
Official language in
Not official in any country
Regulated byNot recognised as a language
Language codes
ISO 639-1afb
ISO 639-3afb
Glottologkuwa1251
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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]

  1. ^ Kuwaiti Arabic at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1999. NTC's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary. (USA: McGraw-Hill Contemporary), p. XV
  3. ^ Mahsain (2014), p. 20.
  4. ^ Mansfield (1990).
  5. ^ Abd-el-Jawad (1992), p. 286.

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