Genetik

Qataris

Катарцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
243,073
Qatar, census 2010 (citizenship)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

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.

Qatar2010 · citizenship · «Qataris» · [1]
243,073

Languages and their lineage

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.

Sources

  1. 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…
  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)