Language

Gulf Arabic serves as the official language. However English as well as many other languages are spoken in Qatar.

Gulf Arabic is a variety of the Arabic language spoken around both shores of the Persian Gulf, mainly in Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and parts of Oman. Some notable characteristics of that set it apart from other Bedouin dialects is the small number of Persian loanwords, and a pronunciation of k as ch ('kalb' dog, read as 'chalb'); and, in some instances, the pronunciation 'j' as 'y' ('jannah' paradise, read as 'yennah').