Domari language

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Domari
Spoken in: Afghanistan, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, Libya, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey
Total speakers: Iran:
   1,338,271

Iraq:
   439,230
Egypt:
   234,000
India:
   201,787
Libya:
   31,738
Turkey:
   28,461
Syria:
   10,000
Jordan:
   4,913
Israel, West Bank and Gaza:
   2,000
Language family: Indo-European
 Indo-Iranian
  Indo-Aryan
   Central zone
    Domari
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: inc
ISO 639-3: rmt
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Domari is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Romany, Rajasthani and eastern Punjabi. It is spoken by the Dom people across the Middle East, mainly in Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Israel/Palestinian territories, and Iraq. There is no standard written form. In the Arab world, it is occasionally written using the Arabic script and has many Arabic and Persian loanwords.[1]

The Arabic for Domari is Nawari, although this may be seen as derogatory.

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