Generalities

Peninsular Arabic or arabian arabic

Arabian Arabic

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 ....

 is the set of Arabic dialects spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula. This includes Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, as well as large parts of Iraq, Syria and Jordan.

Note: As this area is the homeland of the Arabic language, it is common to expect the language spoken there to be closer to Classical or Qur'an Arabic. This is not the case. Although these dialect may have kept nowadays archaic features such as the conservation of nunation for indeterminate nouns, they are as (or sometimes even more) divergent from Classical Arabic as other dialects may be.

Varieties

One generally considers the following varieties

• 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....
  
  , spoken in the center of the peninsula. It is characterized by a shift of /q/ to [dʒ] and /k/ to [tʃ].
• 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...
  
  , spoken on the coast of the Arabo-Persian gulf, with adds to Najdi feature a further evolution of /ğ/ into [j].
• Yemen Arabic, which displays a past conjugation with ultra-archaic -k suffix, as in southern Semitic languages. It has to be noted that the particular dialect of Aden has /ğ/ > [g] as in Cairo.
• Hijazi Arabic, spoken along the coast of the red sea, and especially in the cities of Makka and Jiddah. It shows sufficiently many similarities with the dialects spoken in Sudan and upper Egypt, to suggests that these latter African aeras could have been arabicized without populations crossing the isthmus of Suez.
• The dialect of the Syrian desert nomads, with the characteristic feature of /q/ > [dz] and /k/>/ts/.

It should be noted that the [gilit] dialects spoken in Syria and Iraq on the Euphrates course, are very close to Peninsular Arabic