- Omani Arabic
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Omani Arabic Spoken in Oman Region Hajar mountains and a few coastal towns Native speakers 815,000 (date missing) Language family Afro-Asiatic- Semitic
- Central Semitic
- Arabic
- Southern
- Omani Arabic
- Southern
- Arabic
- Central Semitic
Writing system Arabic alphabet Language codes ISO 639-3 acx Omani Arabic (also known as Omani Hadari Arabic) is a variety of Gulf Arabic dialect spoken in the Hajar Mountains of Oman and in a few neighboring coastal regions. It was formerly spoken by colonists in Kenya and Tanzania, but most or all of them have shifted to Swahili.[1]
Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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Varieties of Arabic Pre-Islamic Modern Literary Variety Maghreb Levant Mesopotamia Arabia Nile Valley Peripheral Judeo-Arabic Creoles † ExtinctCategories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Arabic languages
- Languages of Oman
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- Semitic
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