Dhofari Arabic
Dhofari Arabic | |
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Native to | Oman |
Native speakers | (70,000 cited 1996)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | adf |
Glottolog | dhof1235 |
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Dhofari Arabic (also known as Dhofari, Zofari) is a variety of Arabic, spoken in Salalah, Oman, Yemen, and the surrounding coastal regions (the Dhofar Governorate).[1]
Nomadic and sedentary communities live in the area, and for them Dhofari neo-Arabic can be a first language or a second language or lingua franca, spoken with varying degrees of fluency.[2]
It has the ISO 639-3 language code "adf", and belongs to Peninsular Arabic.[3]
See also[]
- Varieties of Arabic
- Peninsular Arabic
References[]
RICHARD J. DAVEY, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar. Leiden, Brill, 2016.
NICHOLAUS RHODOKANAKIS, Der Vulgärarabische Dialekt im Đofâr (Ẓfâr), 2 volumes, 1908 & 1911.
Notes[]
- ^ a b Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ MORANO, ROBERTA (October 2018). "Richard J. Daley, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: Sketch Grammar". Journal of Semitic Studies. 69 (2): 545–547. doi:10.1093/jss/fgy024.
- ^ "639 Identifier Documentation: adf". sil.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
External links[]
Categories:
- Arabic languages
- Arabs in Oman
- Mashriqi Arabic
- Peninsular Arabic
- Languages of Oman
- Oman stubs
- Arabic language stubs