Afro-Asiatic family
Gulf Arabic
c. 700 CE – today Living
Gulf Arabic (c. 700 CE – today) is a living Afro-Asiatic language. Lineage: Proto-Afro-Asiatic → Proto-Semitic → … → Old Arabic → Classical Arabic → Gulf Arabic.
See Gulf Arabic on the interactive map- ISO 639-3
- afb
- Glottocode
- gulf1241
Peninsular Arabic of the Persian Gulf coasts (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, eastern Saudi Arabia).
Lineage
- Proto-Afro-Asiaticc. 10,000 BCE – 7,000 BCE
- Proto-Semiticc. 4,000 BCE – 2,500 BCE
- Proto-West Semiticc. 3,000 BCE – 2,000 BCE
- Proto-Central Semiticc. 2,500 BCE – 1,500 BCE
- Old Arabicc. 800 BCE – 500 CE
- Classical Arabic500 CE – 1500 CE
- Gulf Arabicc. 700 CE – today
Sister languages 6
Also descended from Classical Arabic.