Khuzestani Arabic

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Khuzestani Arabic
Spoken in: Iran
Total speakers:
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Semitic
  West Semitic
   Central Semitic
    South-Central Semitic
     Arabic
      Khuzestani Arabic 
Writing system: Arabic alphabet 
Official status
Official language in: none
Regulated by: none
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ?

Khuzestani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in the Iranian province of Khuzestan. It is closely related to the Iraqi Arabic dialects of Iraq and contains many Persian loanwords.