Peninsular Arabic are the varieties of Arabic spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula. This includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Southern Iran, Southern Iraq and Jordan.[2]
The modern dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula are closer to Classical Arabic than elsewhere in the Arab world.[3][4] Some of the local dialects have retained many archaic features lost in other dialects, such as the conservation of nunation for indeterminate nouns. They retain most Classical syntax and vocabulary but still have some differences from Classical Arabic like the other dialects.
Distribution of dialects in the Arabian Peninsula
^Bahrani Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Eastern Egyptian Bedawi Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Gulf Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Hadhrami Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Hejazi Arabic at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) (Additional references under 'Language codes' in the information box)
^Holes, Clive (2001). Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Glossary. BRILL. pp. XIX. ISBN 9004107630.
^Zhluktenko, Y. A. (1988). Interlanguage relations and language policy. Capitalist states and countries of the "Third World". Naukova dumka. p. 190. ISBN 9785120001410.
^Alexeyev, B. A. (2003). All Asia. Geographical handbook. АСТ. p. 311. ISBN 9785897371518.
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