Arabian Arabic
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Arabian Arabic is a term used to refer to several Arabic dialects and dialect-groups spoken in modern-day Saudi Arabia
. The most prominent of these are Hejazi Arabic
, Najdi Arabic
, Gulf Arabic
, and Jenubi Arabic ("southern").
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
. The most prominent of these are Hejazi Arabic
Hejazi Arabic
Hejazi Arabic is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the western region of Saudi Arabia...
, Najdi Arabic
Najdi Arabic
Najdi Arabic is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in the desert and oases of central Saudi Arabia.There are four major groups of Najdi Arabic.1. Northern Najdi, spoken in Zulfi, Qaseem and Jabal Shammar regions of Najd....
, Gulf Arabic
Gulf Arabic
Gulf Arabic is a variety of the Arabic language spoken around the shore of the Persian Gulf such as in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman...
, and Jenubi Arabic ("southern").