While Arabic is the official language of the tiny Gulf emirate, English is mainly spoken there. Not surprising given the population of this micro-state, which is also a member of La Francophonie.
From our special correspondent in Qatar,
” As Salam waves “. ” Hello, please give me your passport The young Qatari woman wore a traditional black abaya that revealed only her eyes. Welcome to Qatar. The official language is Arabic, but the population rarely or very little speaks it.
For good reason, of the roughly three million people, 2.8 million are foreigners, mostly from Southeast Asia and the Horn of Africa. According to the most recent count (2014). World Fact Book According to the CIA, 40% of the population is Arab (including Qataris, Egyptians, Sudanese, and Jordanians), 18% Pakistani, 18% Indian, 10% Iranian, and 14% of other origins. Nationalities are so numerous that English, French, Arabic, but also Urdu and Indonesian are spoken in the religious complex south of the capital, where hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim believers live in the country. Tagalog, etc
English is the only medium of communication
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