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ISO 639-3 · abvabv
Afroasiatic family

Bahrani Arabic

لهجة بحرانية

Bahrani Arabic is a language of the Semitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

3 · Wider CommunicationArab
Wikidata recordGlottolog
At a glance
ISO 639-3
abv
Glottocode
baha1259
Wikipedia
21 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
3countries
1scripts
2levels in the tree
3EGIDS level

Facts

NameBahrani Arabic · لهجة بحرانية
Also calledBaharna Arabic, abv, abh
Written inArabic script

Vitality

EGIDS 3 Wider Communication3

Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.

Other languages at this level
family tree

From Afroasiatic to Bahrani Arabic

The branches above Bahrani Arabic, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.

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where it is spoken

Map and countries

A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.

Map of the area where Bahrani Arabic is spoken
Map: Goran_tek-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Bahrain8 languages in the indexSaudi Arabia12 languages in the indexOman17 languages in the index

Also spoken in Bahrain

engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalmsaMalayAustronesian · 77 mfasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafesylSylhetiIndo-European · 14 m3 · Wider CommunicationlrlAchomiIndo-European · 100,0006a · VigorousafbGulf ArabicAfroasiatic3 · Wider Communication