Peninsular Arabic

This includes the countries of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Southern Iran, Southern Iraq and Jordan.

[2] The modern dialects spoken in the Arabian Peninsula are closer to Classical Arabic than elsewhere in the Arab world.

[3][4] Some of the local dialects have retained many archaic features lost in other dialects, such as the conservation of nunation for indeterminate nouns.

Ingham[5] and Holes[6] both note the existence of two peninsular dialect groups: The following varieties are usually noted: The following table compares the Arabic terms between Saudi dialects of urban Hejazi and urban Najdi in addition to the dialect of the Harb tribe[7] with its tribal area (Najdi, urban Hejazi and bedouin Hejazi groups) which shows a correlation and differences between those dialects:

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