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Omani Arabic

 
Wikipedia: Omani Arabic
Omani Arabic
Spoken in Oman
Region Hajar mountains and a few coastal towns
Total speakers 815,000
Language family Afro-Asiatic
Writing system Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1 None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3 acx

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]

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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