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Bahrainis

Бахрейнцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
712,362
Bahrain, census 2020 (citizenship)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Bahrain: 712,362 people in the 2020 census.

Main language: Baharna Arabic. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Bahrain2020 · citizenship · «Bahrainis» · [1]
712,362

Languages and their lineage

Baharna Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395
  7. Arabian Peninsula Arabicarab1393
  8. North Arabian Beduin Arabicnort3402
  9. Baharna Arabicbaha1259

Gulf Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395
  7. Arabian Peninsula Arabicarab1393
  8. North Arabian Beduin Arabicnort3402
  9. Gulf Arabicgulf1241

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsEmiratisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. Information & eGovernment Authority (IGA), Bahrain; mirrored by GLMM. Bahrain: Population by nationality group and sex (census 2020). https://gulfmigration.grc.net/bahrain-population-by-nationality-group-and-sex-census-2020/
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)