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The Bahrani Arabic dialect exhibits Akkadian, Aramaic and Syriac features. [16] [17] The sedentary people of pre-Islamic Bahrain were Aramaic speakers and to some degree Middle Persian (Pahlavi) speakers, while Syriac functioned as a liturgical language. [9]
Abdul Amir al-Jamri, spiritual leader of the Bahrani people; Abdulhadi Al Khawaja, Bahraini human rights activist and hunger striker; Massouma al-Mubarak, Kuwait's first female minister; Nimr al-Nimr, spiritual leader of the 2011 Saudi Arabian protests; Hussain Al-Qallaf Al-Bahrani, member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly
Bahraini people are ethnically diverse. There are at least 8–9 different ethnic groups of Bahraini citizens. Shia Bahraini citizens are divided into two main ethnic groups: Bahrani and Ajam. Most Shia Bahrainis are ethnic Baharna, the Baharna being descendants of the original pre-Islamic inhabitants of Bahrain.
The royal family and most Bahrani elites are Sunni. [303] The country's two Muslim communities are united on some issues, but disagree sharply on others. [303] Shia have often complained of being politically repressed and economically marginalized in Bahrain; as a result, most of the protestors in the Bahraini uprising of 2011 were Shia. [304 ...
The Bahrani Arabic dialect has been significantly influenced by the ancient Aramaic, Syriac, and Akkadian languages. [3] [4] An interesting sociolinguistic feature of Bahrain is the existence of two main dialects: Bahrani and Sunni Arabic. [5] Sunni Bahrainis speak a dialect which is most similar to urban dialect spoken in Qatar.
Arabic (Bahraini, Bahrani), Farsi, English, Urdu Demographics of Bahrain, Data of FAO , year 2005; Number of permanent inhabitants in thousands. The demographics of the population of Bahrain includes population density , ethnicity , education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
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