Languages of Qatar
state of Qatar, Dawlet al-Qatar. 796,000. National or official language: Standard Arabic. Literacy rate: 60%–76%. Immigrant languages: Malayalam (6,500), Tamil (2,200), Urdu (20,000). Also includes Balochi, languages of the Philippines (25,000) and Sri Lanka. Deaf population: 31,103. The number of individual languages listed for Qatar is 3. Of those, all are living languages.
| Arabic, Gulf Spoken | [afb]
104,000 in Qatar (1986).
Alternate names: Gulf Arabic, Khaliji, Qatari.
Dialects: North Qatari Arabic, South Qatari Arabic.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Arabic, Standard | [arb]
Middle East, North Africa.
Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic
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| Farsi, Western | [pes]
73,000 in Qatar (1993).
Alternate names: Persian.
Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian
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