Dhofari Arabic
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]
| Dhofari Arabic | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Oman |
Native speakers | (70,000 cited 1996)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Arabic alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | adf |
| Glottolog | dhof1235 |
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
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
- Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- MORANO, ROBERTA (October 2018). "Richard J. Daley, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: Sketch Grammar". Journal of Semitic Studies. 69, Issue 2: 545–547.
- "639 Identifier Documentation: adf". sil.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
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