Kuwaiti Arabic
| Kuwaiti Arabic | |
|---|---|
| كويتي | |
| Pronunciation | [kweːti] |
| Native to | Grane, nowadays State of Kuwait |
Native speakers | 2.55 million (2021) |
| Arabic, with addition of 3 or 4 letters. | |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Not official in any country |
| Regulated by | Not recognised as a language |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | afb |
| ISO 639-3 | afb |
| Glottolog | kuwa1251 |
Kuwaiti (Arabic: كويتي, romanized: Kuwaytī, [kweːti]) is a Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in Kuwait. Kuwaiti Arabic shares many phonetic features unique to Gulf dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula. Due to Kuwait's soap opera industry, knowledge of Kuwaiti Arabic has spread throughout the Arabic-speaking world and become recognizable even to people in countries such as Tunisia and Jordan.: p. 113