Dhofari Arabic

Dhofari Arabic
Native to	Oman
Native speakers	70,000 (1996)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Peninsular Dhofari Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`adf`
Glottolog	`dhof1235`^[2]

Dhofari Arabic (also known as Dhofari, Zofari) is a variety of Arabic spoken in Salalah, Oman and the surrounding coastal regions (the Dhofar Governorate).^[1]

Notes

1 2 Dhofari Arabic at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dhofari Arabic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Pre-Islamic

Modern literary

Northeastern	Gulf Omani Shihhi Dhofari Kuwaiti Najdi

Western	Bareqi Hejazi Sedentary Bedouin

Southern	Baharna Yemeni Hadhrami Sanaani Ta'izzi-Adeni Tihami Judeo-Yemeni

Northwestern	Bedouin

Eastern

Mesopotamian	North Mesopotamian Cypriot Maronite Anatolian Judeo-Iraqi South Mesopotamian Baghdad Koiné Khuzestani

Central Asian	Afghani Khorasani Central Asian Arabic

North Levantine	North Syrian Central Levantine Central Syrian Lebanese

South Levantine	Jordanian Palestinian Urban Central village Outer southern

Nilo-Egyptian

Western

Iberian

Pre-Hilalian	Urban Eastern Village Sahel Lesser Kabylia Western Village Traras-Msirda Mountain Judeo-Maghrebi Arabic Judeo-Moroccan Judeo-Tripolitanian Judeo-Tunisian

Hilalian	Sulaym Libyan koiné Eastern Hilal Tunisian koiné Central Hilal Algerian koiné Central and Saharan Eastern Algerian Western Algerian Maqil Western Moroccan Eastern Moroccan Moroccan koiné Hassānīya

Siculo-Arabic

Undescribed

Italics indicate extinct languages.

Languages of Oman

Official language	Arabic

Main foreign language	English

Minority languages	Balochi Bathari Harsusi Hobyót Kumzari Luwati Mehri Shehri Swahili

Varieties of Arabic	Bahrani Arabic Omani Arabic Dhofari Shihhi

Sign languages	Omani Sign Language

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