It is not well known when this change occurred or the probability of it being connected to the pronunciation of Qāf ⟨ق⟩ as a [ɡ], but in most of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE and parts of Yemen and Oman) which is the homeland of the Arabic language, the ⟨⟩ represents a [d͡ʒ] and ⟨⟩ represents a [ɡ], except in western and southern Yemen and southern Oman where ⟨⟩ represents a [ɡ] and ⟨⟩ represents a [q], which shows a strong correlation between the palatalization of ⟨⟩ to [d͡ʒ] and the pronunciation of the ⟨⟩ as a [ɡ] as shown in the table below: