Omani Arabic

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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
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]

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[edit] References

• Ethnologue entry for Omani Arabic

[edit] External links

• Omani Arabic at Ethnologue
• Entry for Omani Arabic at Rosetta Project

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