Bahrain Languages

Description
Arabic is the official language of Bahrain, though English is widely used. All commercial institutions and road signs are bilingual, displaying both English and Arabic.


 * Arabic plays an important role in political life and one must be fluent in Arabic to stand for parliament.


 * Bahrani Arabic (also known as Bahrani and Baharna Arabic) is the most widely spoken dialect of the Arabic language, though it differs widely from standard Arabic, like all Arabic dialects.


 * Balochi is the second largest and widely spoken language in Bahrain.

Word List(s)

 * Arabic Core 100 Word List - ArabicPod 101
 * Bahrain: Important Phrases - Tripadvisor

Alphabet and Pronunciation

 * Bahrani Arabic Phonology - Wikipedia
 * Arabic Vowels and Consonants - Wikipedia
 * Balochi Phonology - Wikipedia

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Dictionaries
 * Anwar Hafiz & Moustafa Aziz, Conversational dictionary of spoken Arabic - Available at WorldCat
 * Dilip Hiro, Dictionary of the Middle East, New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996 - Available at WorldCat
 * Malcolm C Peck, Historical dictionary of the Gulf Arab states, Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008 - Available at WorldCat
 * Dilip Hiro, A comprehensive dictionary of the Middle East, Northampton, MA : Interlink Books, 2013 - [URL Available at WorldCat]
 * Nicholas Awde & K Smith, Arabic dictionary : Arabic-English : English-Arabic, 	London : Bennett & Bloom, 2004 - Available at WorldCat

Online Dictionaries
 * Bahrani Arabic Dictionary
 * Dictionary English - Arabic - Glosbe

Language Aids
 * Balochi Grammar - Wikipedia
 * Arabic Grammar - Wikipedia
 * Habaka J Feghali, Gulf Arabic : the dialects of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Oman : grammar, dialogues, and lexicon, 	Springfield, VA : Dunwoody Press, 2008 - Available at WorldCat
 * George Waters Gilbertson & Ghāno Khān Haddiānī, The Balochi language, a grammar and manual, Hertford, Printed by S. Austin & Sons, for the author, 1923 - Available at WorldCat
 * Mir Naseer Khan Ahmadzai Baloch, The Grammar of Balochi Language, Balochi Acadamy, 1984 - Available at GoogleBooks

Additional Resources

 * Bahrani - Words borrowed from other languages - Wikipedia
 * Laura Etheredge, Persian Gulf states : Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates, 	New York : Britannica Educational Pub., in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2011 - Available at WorldCat