Peninsular Arabic

Varieties

• Yemeni Arabic, displays a past conjugation with the very archaic -k suffix, as in southern Semitic languages. It has to be noted that the dialect of Aden has > as in Cairo.
• Hejazi Arabic, spoken in Saudi Arabia along the coast of the Red Sea, especially in the cities of Mecca and Jeddah. Strictly speaking, there are two distinct dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the Bedouin rural population and another by the urban population. However, it is the urban variety, spoken in cities such as Jeddah, Mecca, Medina and Yanbu, that is typically considered Hejazi.
• Najdi Arabic, spoken in the center of the peninsula in Saudi Arabia and is characterized by a shift of to and affrication of and to and, respectively, in certain contexts.
• Hadhrami Arabic, Spoken in Hadhramout in southern Arabia, is characterised by its ج /dʒ/-yodization, changing the Classical Arabic reflex /dʒ/ to the approximant ي . That resembles some Eastern Arabian and Gulf dialects.
• Gulf Arabic, spoken in the coast of the Persian Gulf.
• Bahrani Arabic, spoken in Bahrain and Oman.
• The dialect of Syrian Desert nomads, who also exhibit affrication of and to and, respectively.

• بَلْكي balki is archaic and barely used in both dialects.

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