| Dhofari Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Oman |
Native speakers | 70,000 (1996)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | adf |
| Glottolog | dhof1235[2] |
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.[3]
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References[edit]
RICHARD J. DAVEY, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: A Sketch Grammar. Leiden, Brill, 2016.
NICHOLAUS RHODOKANAKIS, Der Vulgärarabische Dialekt im Đofâr (Ẓfâr), 2 volumes, 1908 & 1911.
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- ^ a b Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dhofari Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ MORANO, ROBERTA (October 2018). "Richard J. Daley, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: Sketch Grammar". Journal of Semitic Studies. 69, Issue 2: 545–547.
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