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Peninsular Arabic, or Southern Arabic, is the varieties of Arabic spoken throughout the Arabian Peninsula. This includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq and Jordan. As this area is the homeland of the Arabic language, it is common to expect the language spoken there to be closer to Classical Arabic. This is not the case. Although these dialects may have retained archaic features such as the conservation of nunation for indeterminate nouns, they are as divergent from Classical Arabic as other dialects may be (or sometimes even more divergent). ==Varieties== The following varieties are usually noted: * Yemeni Arabic, 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 > as in Cairo. * Hejazi Arabic, spoken in Saudi Arabia along the coast of the Red Sea, especially in the cities of Makka and Jiddah. Although, strictly speaking, there are two distinct dialects spoken in the Hejaz region, one by the bedouin rural population, and another by the urban population, the term most often applies to the urban variety, spoken in cities such as Jeddah, Mecca, Yanbu. * Najdi Arabic, spoken in the center of the peninsula in Saudi Arabia. It is characterized by a shift of to and to . * Gulf Arabic (including Omani Arabic, Dhofari Arabic and Shihhi Arabic), spoken in the coast of the Persian Gulf. * Bahrani Arabic, spoken in Bahrain and Oman. * The dialect of the Syrian Desert nomads, with the characteristic feature of > and > . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peninsular Arabic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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