In brief
The largest documented number lives in Qatar: 243,073 people in the 2010 census.
Main language: Gulf 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.
Qatar
243,073
Languages and their lineage
Gulf Arabic
- Afro-Asiaticafro1255
- Semiticsemi1276
- West Semiticwest2786
- Central Semiticcent2236
- Arabianarab1394
- Arabicarab1395
- Arabian Peninsula Arabicarab1393
- North Arabian Beduin Arabicnort3402
- Gulf Arabicgulf1241
People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.
Sources
- Planning and Statistics Authority / Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA); mirrored by GLMM. Qatar: Population by nationality (Qatari/non-Qatari) at dates of censuses (1970-2020). https://gulfmigration.grc.net/qatar-population-by-nationality-qatari-non-qatari-at-dates-o…
- Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)