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 toOman
Native speakers
70,000 (1996)[1]
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3adf
Glottologdhof1235[2]

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]

It has the ISO 639-3 language code "adf", and belongs to Peninsular Arabic.[4]

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

  1. Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dhofari Arabic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. MORANO, ROBERTA (October 2018). "Richard J. Daley, Coastal Dhofari Arabic: Sketch Grammar". Journal of Semitic Studies. 69, Issue 2: 545–547.
  4. "639 Identifier Documentation: adf". sil.org. Retrieved 2020-06-25.


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