Khorasani Arabic

Khorasani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in Iran. It is a variety of Central Asian Arabic spoken in a few villages in the Iranian province of Khorasan.^[2] Khorasani Arabic is not taught in school and is not widely spoken by the Khorasani Arab community.

Khorasani Arabic
Native to	Iran
Native speakers	5,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic Central Semitic Arabic Central Asian Arabic Khorasani Arabic
Writing system	Arabic alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	auz
Glottolog	khor1274

According to Kees Versteegh, there are between 5,000 and 10,000 Khorasani Arabic speakers. Khorasani Arabic may be related to Central Asian Arabic. It is influenced by Persian.^[3]