Kuwaiti Arabic

Kuwaiti Arabic
Kuwaiti Arabic
كويتي
Pronunciation	[kwe:ti]
Native to	Grane, nowadays State of Kuwait
Native speakers	2.55 million (2021)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Gulf Kuwaiti Arabic; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Arabic, with addition of 3 or 4 letters.
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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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]

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

[e26-1] Kuwaiti Arabic at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)

[2] Qafisheh, Hamdi A. 1999. NTC's Gulf Arabic-English Dictionary. (USA: McGraw-Hill Contemporary), p. XV

[FOOTNOTEMahsain201420-3] Mahsain (2014), p. 20.

[FOOTNOTEMansfield1990-4] Mansfield (1990).

[FOOTNOTEAbd-el-Jawad1992286-5] Abd-el-Jawad (1992), p. 286.

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