"Gulf Arabic" is the term used to refer to a number of related
dialects which are spoken along the Gulf shore from northern Kuwait
to Oman in the south-eastern corner of the Arabian peninsula. The
people who live in this area are linked to each other by trading
and seafaring traditions which go back many centuries, as well as
by the complex tribal structure of Arabia. With the development of
education since the second world war, and increasingly close
social, political, and developmental ties between Gulf states, a
form of dialectical Arabic has evolved which is not closely
associated with any one particular state, and which exhibits
features common to them all. It is still unmistakably Gulf' in its
basic pronunciation and morphology, as well as in its basic lexical
stock, but its syntax and to some extent lexicon have been
influenced by standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects. Clive
Holes provides an in-depth description of this educated, pan-Gulf
dialect.
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