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Gulf Arabic dialects from other Arabic varieties is the retention of the dental fricatives and , which in many other dialects merged with other sounds; similarly, the reflex of the merger of classical * and * is often in some dialects but is a fricative (either or ) in Gulf dialects. It shares this feature with most Peninsular and Mesopotamian dialects.
* has merged to .
* Historically, became in Gulf Arabic. Due to influence from MSA, the sound was reintroduced in a handful of classicisms. A number of speakers realize this

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