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Arabic, Egyptian Spoken
[arz] Users: 230,000 in Qatar (2017 Egypt Independent), based on nationality. Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Gulf Spoken
[afb] Widespread. Users: 788,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: 3 (Wider communication). De facto national working language, absent from formal education. Alternate Names: Gulf Arabic, Qatari. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Hijazi Spoken
[acw] Users: 27,800 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Najdi Spoken
[ars] Users: 57,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, North Levantine Spoken
[apc] Widespread. Users: 561,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, South Levantine Spoken
[ajp] Widespread. Users: 380,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Standard
[arb] Widespread. Users: 1,100,000 in Qatar (2015 SIL), all users. Status: 1 (National). Statutory national language (2003, Constitution, Article 1). Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Arabic, Sudanese Spoken
[apd] Users: 57,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic.
Armenian, Western
[hyw] Users: 8,500 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Armenian.
Balochi, Southern
[bcc] Users: 57,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Balochi.
English
[eng] Users: 42,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Germanic, West, English.
French
[fra] Scattered. Users: 114,500 in Qatar, all users. L1 users: 8,500 in Qatar (2019). L2 users: 106,000 (2018). Status: 4 (Educational). Classification: Indo-European, Italic, Romance, Italo-Western, Western, Gallo-Iberian, Gallo-Romance, Gallo-Rhaetian, Oïl, French.
Malayalam
[mal] Users: 78,900 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Malayalam.
Nepali
[npi] Users: 285,000 in Qatar (International Organization for Migration (IOM) 2019), based on nationality. Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Intermediate Divisions, Eastern, Eastern Pahari.
Persian, Iranian
[pes] Scattered. Users: 283,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: 5* (Dispersed). Alternate Names: Persian, Western Farsi. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian.
Sinhala
[sin] Users: 57,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Outer Languages, Southern, Sinhalese-Maldivian.
Tagalog
[tgl] Users: 127,000 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Greater Central Philippine, Central Philippine, Tagalog.
Tamil
[tam] Users: 27,800 in Qatar (2019). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Dravidian, Southern, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam, Tamil.
Urdu
[urd] Users: 180,000 in Qatar (2010). Status: Unestablished. Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Western Hindi, Hindustani.