Omani Arabic

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Omani Arabic
اللهجة العمانية
Native toOman
RegionHajar mountains and a few coastal towns
Native speakers
(720,000 in Oman cited 1996)[1]
320,000 in UAE (no date),[1] 15,000 in Kenya (1995)[1]
Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3acx
Glottologoman1239

Omani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in Oman, Zanzibar, and parts of Kenya, Somalia, the UAE, Iran, and Pakistan.

References[change | change source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Omani Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)