Kuwait: Perbedaan antara revisi

[[Ekspatriat di Kuwait]] mencapai sekitar 60% dari total populasi Kuwait. Pada akhir Desember 2018, 57,65% dari total populasi Kuwait adalah orang Arab (termasuk ekspatriat Arab).<ref name=PACI/> [[Orang India]] dan [[Bangsa Mesir|Mesir]] masing-masing adalah komunitas ekspatriat terbesar.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Kuwait MP seeks five-year cap on expat workers' stay |url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/kuwait-mp-seeks-five-year-cap-on-expat-workers-stay-1.1284513 |newspaper=Gulf News |date=30 January 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328170436/http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/kuwait/kuwait-mp-seeks-five-year-cap-on-expat-workers-stay-1.1284513 |archive-date=28 March 2014}}</ref>

Agama resmi negara Kuwait adalah [[Sunni|Islam Sunni]] [[Mazhab Maliki|Maliki]]. Keluarga penguasa Al Sabah termasuk Emir, menganut mazhab Maliki dari Islam Sunni. Sebagian besar warga negara Kuwait adalah [[Islam di Kuwait|Muslim]]; tidak ada sensus nasional resmi tetapi diperkirakan 60%–70% adalah Sunni dan 30%–40% adalah [[Syiah]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-33315868|title=How one country came together after a terror attack|work=[[BBC]]|year=2015|access-date=12 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407192121/http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-33315868|archive-date=7 April 2016}}</ref><ref name=ssi>{{cite web|url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub861.pdf |title=The Evolution of U. S.-Turkish Relations in a Transatlantic Context |publisher=[[Strategic Studies Institute]] |page=87 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318173523/http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub861.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2015}}</ref> Negara ini memiliki komunitas [[Kekristenan|Kristen]] asli, diperkirakan terdiri dari antara 259 dan 400 warga Kristen Kuwait.<ref name="ref">{{cite web|url=http://www.refworld.org/country,,,ANNUALREPORT,KWT,,3ae6a88954,0.html|title=International Religious Freedom Report|work=[[US State Department]]|year=1999|access-date=12 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310114405/http://www.refworld.org/country,,,annualreport,kwt,,3ae6a88954,0.html|archive-date=10 March 2016}}</ref> Kuwait adalah satu-satunya [[Dewan Kerjasama untuk Negara Arab di Teluk|negara GCC]] selain [[Bahrain]] yang memiliki penduduk Kristen lokal yang memegang kewarganegaraan. Ada juga sejumlah kecil warga Kuwait yang mengikuti [[Baháʼí|Iman Baháʼí]].<ref name="irfr2007">{{cite web |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2007/90214.htm |title=International Religious Freedom Report for 2007 |work=[[US State Department]] |year=2007 |access-date=12 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=البهائيون في الكويت 100 منتمٍ... ومحفل يديره تسعة أشخاص |newspaper=[[Al Rai (Kuwaiti newspaper)|Al Rai]] |url=http://www.alraimedia.com/Articles.aspx?id=583204 |language=ar |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706204435/http://www.alraimedia.com/Articles.aspx?id=583204 |archive-date=6 July 2015}}</ref> Kuwait juga memiliki komunitas besar ekspatriat Kristen, [[Agama Hindu|Hindu]], [[Agama Buddha|Budha]], dan [[Sikhisme|Sikh]].<ref name=irfr2007 />

Bahasa resmi Kuwait adalah [[Bahasa Arab Baku Modern|Bahasa Arab Standar Modern]], tetapi penggunaan sehari-hari terbatas pada jurnalisme dan pendidikan. [[Bahasa Arab Kuwait]] adalah varian bahasa Arab yang digunakan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.<ref>[http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55661/1/U584180.pdf page 19] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713142832/http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55661/1/U584180.pdf |date=13 July 2016}}</ref> [[Bahasa Inggris]] dipahami secara luas dan sering digunakan sebagai bahasa bisnis. Selain bahasa Inggris, [[bahasa Prancis]] diajarkan sebagai bahasa ketiga untuk siswa [[humaniora]] di sekolah, tetapi hanya untuk dua tahun. Bahasa Arab Kuwait adalah varian [[Bahasa Arab Teluk]], yang memiliki kesamaan dengan dialek daerah pesisir tetangga di Arab Timur.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kuwait.tt/articledetails.aspx?Id=161203|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120084008/http://kuwait.tt/articledetails.aspx?Id=161203|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 January 2015|title=خالد الرشيد: "اللهجة الكويتية" "مظلومة" في مدارسنا.. لأن أغلب معلمينا وافدون|date=20 January 2015}}</ref> Karena imigrasi selama sejarah pra-minyak serta perdagangannya, bahasa Arab Kuwait meminjam banyak kata dari bahasa [[Bahasa Persia|Persia]], bahasa[[Bahasa di India|India]], bahasa[[Bahasa Baluchi|Balochi]], [[Bahasa Turki|Turki]], Inggris, dan [[Bahasa Italia|Italia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.p2bk.com/mag/mag_jan2011.pdf|title=page 28|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713142830/http://www.p2bk.com/mag/mag_jan2011.pdf|archive-date=13 July 2016}}</ref>

Karena imigrasi historis, [[Bahasa Persia Kuwait|Persia Kuwait]] digunakan di kalangan [[Ajam Kuwait]].<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Alhabib|first=Mohammad E.|url=http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=history_theses|title=The Shia Migration from Southwestern Iran to Kuwait: Push-Pull Factors during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries|work=[[Georgia State University]]|year=2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227165722/http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=history_theses|archive-date=27 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/nacil/pdfs/abstracts/Gazsi_NACIL1.pdf|title=The Persian Dialects of the Ajam in Kuwait|work=The University of Iowa|first=Dénes|last=Gazsi}}</ref> Sub-dialek [[Rumpun bahasa Iran|Iran]] [[Bahasa Achomi|Larestani]], Khonji, Bastaki dan Gerashi juga mempengaruhi kosa kata bahasa Arab Kuwait.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=euezAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA11|title=Lang & Linguistic in Bahrain|work=Al-Tajir|date=2013|pages=11|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105063055/http://books.google.com/books?id=euezAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&dq|archive-date=5 January 2014|isbn=9781136136269|last1=Al-Tajir}}</ref> Sebagian besar warga Syiah Kuwait adalah keturunan [[Bangsa Iran|Iran]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C9TkD3ugwEUC&pg=PA190|title=Citizenship and the State in the Middle East: Approaches and Applications|work=Nils August Butenschøn, Uri Davis, Manuel Sarkis Hassassian|date=2000|pages=190|isbn=9780815628293|last1=Butenschon|first1=Nils A.|last2=Davis|first2=Uri|last3=Hassassian|first3=Manuel}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://michaelherb.net/herb_shia_gulf.pdf|title=Ethnic Conflict and International Politics in the Middle East |year=1999 |pages=164 |quote=Unlike the Shi'a of Saudi Arabia or Bahrain, the Kuwaiti Shi'a mostly are of Persian descent. |isbn=9780813016870 |last1=Binder |first1=Leonard |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208101957/http://books.google.com/books?id=h96DAuS0dLkC&pg=PA164&dq |archive-date=8 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yczrAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 |title=Business Politics in the Middle East |work=Rivka Azoulay |year=2013 |pages=71|isbn=9781849042352 |last1=Hertog |first1=Steffen |last2=Luciani |first2=Giacomo |last3=Valeri |first3=Marc}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dM4hPlxMw8C&pg=PA533 |title=Islam in the World Today: A Handbook of Politics, Religion, Culture, and Society |work=Werner Ende, Udo Steinbach |year=2002 |pages=533|isbn=0801464897 |last1=Ende |first1=Werner |last2=Steinbach |first2=Udo}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6EBeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA135|title=Sectarian Politics in the Persian Gulf|work=Lawrence G. Potter|pages=135|isbn=9780190237967|last1=Potter|first1=Lawrence G.|date=June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8wnEtH8oDgC&pg=PA47|title=Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf|work=Laurence Louër|pages=47|isbn=9781849042147|last1=Louër|first1=Laurence|year=2011}}</ref>