🇰🇼 What Language Do They Speak in Kuwait?
The short answer
Kuwait speaks Arabic — Kuwaiti Arabic is a Gulf dialect with its own distinctive vocabulary, and thanks to Kuwait's outsized TV drama industry, it's one of the most widely understood Gulf accents across the Arab world. English is compulsory in school and common in business.
Worth knowing
- ●Kuwaiti soap operas made the dialect famous across the Middle East
- ●'Shlonak?' — 'how are you?' — is the classic Gulf greeting, literally 'what's your colour?'
- ●South Asian communities make Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam widely spoken
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