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Bahraini Gulf Arabic is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Bahrain. It is spoken by Sunni Bahraini and is a dialect which is most similar to urban dialect spoken in Qatar.

Bahraini Gulf Arabic
Native to	Bahrain
Native speakers	no data[1] L2 negligible
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Gulf Bahraini Gulf Arabic
Official status
Official language in	Not official in any country
Regulated by	Not recognised as a language
Language codes
ISO 639-1	none
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	bahr1247

An sociolinguistic feature of Bahrain is the existence of three distinct dialects: Bahrani Arabic (a dialect primarily spoken by Bahraini in Shia villages and some parts of Manama), Sunni and Ajami Arabic.[2]

In Bahrain, the Sunni muslims form a minority of the population, but the ruling family is Sunni. Therefore, the Bahraini Gulf Arabic dialect represented on TV is almost invariably that of the Sunni population. Therefore, power, prestige and financial control are associated with the Sunni Arabs. This is having a major effect on the direction of language change in Bahrain.[3]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Bahraini Gulf Arabic

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[ru] Бахрейнский диалект арабского языка

Бахрейнский диалект арабского языка (араб. اللهجة البحرينية‎) — молодая разновидность арабского языка, распространённая в Королевстве Бахрейн. Бахрейнский диалект относится к восточноаравийской подгруппе (то есть к диалектам Персидского залива) восточной группы диалектов арабского языка[1].

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