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Omani Arabic
variety of Peninsular Arabic spoken in Oman / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Omani Arabic is a dialect of Arabic spoken in Oman, Zanzibar, and parts of Kenya, Somalia, the UAE, Iran, and Pakistan.
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Omani Arabic | |
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اللهجة العمانية | |
Native to | Oman |
Region | Hajar 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] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Arabic alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | acx |
Glottolog | oman1239 |
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