Oman

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Omani Arabic
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 
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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