Urban Qatari Arabic

Urban Qatari Arabic
العربية القطرية المدنية
Native toQatar
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3–

Urban Qatari Arabic (Arabic: العربية القطرية المدنية, romanized: al-ʻarabiyyah al-qaṭariyyah al-madaniyya) is a variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in Qatar, and considered the prestige dialect within the nation.

The vocabulary of Urban Qatari Arabic incorporates a plethora of loanwords from Aramaic, Persian, Turkish, and more recently, English. Urban Qatari Arabic exhibits features that align with other Gulf dialects, but with unique adaptations.

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