EURPhon: Bahraini Arabic (Shi'a)

Phylum: Semitic

Genus: Arabic

Lat/lon: 26.218051, 50.46517

ISO code: abv

Consonants

Basic short series

	bilabial	labio-velar	labio-dental	dental	alveolar	postalveolar	palatal	velar	uvular	pharyngeal	glottal
stop	b			t̪, d̪				k, g			ʔ
trill					r
fricative			f		s, z	ʃ			χ, ʁ	ħ, ʕ	h
affricate						tʃ, dʒ
nasal					n
approximant		w					j
lateral approximant				l̪

Short pharyngealised series

	dental	alveolar
stop	t̪ˤ, d̪ˤ
fricative		sˤ

Vowels

Basic short series

	front	central	back
close	i		u
open		a

Long series

	front	central	back
close	iː		uː
close-mid	eː		oː
open		aː

Short nasalised series

	front	back
close	ĩ	ũ
close-mid	ẽ	õ

Diphthongs

/aj/, /aw/

Source: Prochazka, Theodore. 1981. The Šīˁī dialects of Bahrain and their relationship to the Eastern Arabian dialect of Muḥarraq and the Oman dialect of al-Ristāq. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik 6. 16–55.