Omani Arabic

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
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]

Notes

References

• Ethnologue entry for Omani Arabic

Links

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