Arabic Dialects Map. Dhofari arabic, also called zofari or dhofari is the dialect mainly spoken in salalah, including the coastal regions in the dhofar. It is most closely related to the bedouin dialects of jordan and northwestern saudi arabia and is the same as what wikipedia refers to as northwestern arabian arabic.
Countries where arabic is an official language simply refer to “the arabic language,” the reference to the standard form of arabic being implicit. In fact, they all describe a variety of the elevated colloquial of cairo which was certainly in the 19th century, as it is today, the standard egyptian dialect. This is intended to refer to the dialects of the bedouin communities of eastern egypt, the sinai and the negev desert.
The varieties (or dialects or vernacular languages) of arabic, a semitic language within the afroasiatic family originating in the arabian peninsula, are the linguistic systems that arabic speakers speak natively.
Many aspects of the variability attested to in. I'm from lebanon but i live in the u.s. Being far from an expert or even someone overly proficient at arabic i’ll just make two quick comments. The arabic dialects of arabia by clive holes curiously for one whose interests ranged so widely over the ancient languages of arabia, much of freddie beeston’s research on arabic was concerned with the modern written language, of which that masterly study published in 1970, the arabic language today1 unsurpassed in its elegance and economy of descriptive statement, deserves special mention.