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Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic): resources and preservation

Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic) dictionaries, corpora, libraries and media; endangerment and documentation; how to contribute.

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01Directory

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Media entries are public broadcasters of different states. A listing is not an endorsement. Media under international sanctions are not listed.

02Endangerment

EntryStatusBasis
UNESCO World Atlas of LanguagesTo verify
Gilit Mesopotamian ArabicNot endangered3 (Wider communication)
Gulf ArabicNot endangered3 (Wider communication)

Sources UNESCO. World Atlas of Languages. (2025) To verify; Hammarström, Forkel, Haspelmath and Bank. Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (2025) Verified; Eberhard, Simons and Fennig (eds.). Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 28th edition. SIL International. (2025) Secondary source

03Documentation

No documentation project for Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic) is recorded here yet. These archives hold recordings and studies of the region’s languages.

04Contribute

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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic): Resources and preservation. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/ar-ir/resources/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Arabic (Khuzestani and Gulf Arabic): Resources and Preservation.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/language/languages/ar-ir/resources/.

BibTeX
@misc{idcdc2026_language_languages_ar_ir_resources,
	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Arabic ({Khuzestani} and {Gulf} {Arabic}): Resources and preservation},
	url = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/ar-ir/resources/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/language/languages/ar-ir/resources/},
}

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05Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. Khuzestani Arabic

    Nawal Bahrani, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami · 2019 · Journal of the International Phonetic Association

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefDataCiteZenodoOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

  2. General Classification and Internal Subdivisions of Khuzestani Arabic (KhA)

    Bettina Leitner · 2022 · Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic

    ChapterCrossrefOpenAIRE

  3. Grammar of Khuzestani Arabic

    Bettina Leitner · 2022 · BRILL eBooks

    BookOpenAlexCrossref

  4. Numerical Code-Switching in Khuzestani Arabic

    Hossein Matoori · 2016 · JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS

    ArticleOpenAlexCrossrefOpenAIREOpen accessCC-BY

  5. Linguistic Contact and Tracing Persian Construction onto Khuzestani Arabic Structures

    Samad Mirza Suzani, Shohreh Zakerin · 2024 · Middle East Research Journal of Linguistics and Literature

    ArticleOpenAlexOpenAIREOpen access

  6. Conversations Among Women: A Text in the Arabic Dialect of Khuzestan (Southwest Iran)

    Bettina Leitner · 2022 · Semitic Dialects and Dialectology

    ChapterDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

  7. VOT in Khuzestani Arabic voicing contrast

    Nawal Bahrani · 2021 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCiteOpenAIRE

  8. The polyfunctional lexeme /fard/ in the Arabic dialects of Iraq and Khuzestan

    Bettina Leitner, Stephan Procházka · 2021 · Brill s Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  9. Agreement Patterns in Khuzestani Arabic

    Simone Bettega, Bettina Leitner · 2019 · Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin)

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen access

  10. New Perspectives on the Urban–Rural Dichotomy and Dialect Contact in the Arabic gələt Dialects in Iraq and South-West Iran

    Bettina Leitner · 2021 · Languages

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  11. NEGATION IN KHUZESTANI ARABIC AND SADAT TAWAHER SIGN LANGUAGE

    Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sa’d · 2023 · Unpublished

    ArticleDataCite

  12. Negation in Khuzestani Arabic & Sadat Tawaher Sign Language

    Seyyed Hatam Tamimi Sad · 2024 · Purdue University Graduate School

    ThesisDataCiteOpen accessCC-BY-4.0

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