Kuwaiti Arabic

Kuwaiti Arabic

Kuwaiti Arabic is a dialect of Arabic used in Kuwait closely related to other Gulf Arabic dialects. The variant of Arabic used in Iraq is quite similar, many words of Kuwaiti Arabic having similar spelling and pronunciation to their Iraqi counterparts. For instance, in the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine), the word for 'How are you?' is "Keefek", whereas in Kuwait and other parts of the gulf, one would use "Shlonik"(masculine) and "Shlonich"(feminine).


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