Omani Arabic
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| Omani Arabic | ||
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| Spoken in: | Oman | |
| Region: | Hajar mountains and a few coastal towns | |
| Total speakers: | 815,000 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic Central Semitic South Central Semitic Arabic Omani Arabic |
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| Writing system: | Arabic alphabet | |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | acx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Omani Arabic (also known as Omani Hadari Arabic) is a variety of Arabic 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]
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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