Domari is a language spoken by the Dom of the Middle East. It is an Indo-Aryan language. It is endangered because the young have shifted to Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish and Kurdish.[4] [5]
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| Native to | Azerbaijan, Mauritania, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Sudan, and perhaps neighboring countries[1] |
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| Region | Middle East and North Africa, Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia |
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| Ethnicity | Dom |
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Native speakers | 281,670 (2015)[2] |
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| Dialects |
- Northern Domari
- Southern Domari
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| Latin, Arabic, Hebrew |
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| ISO 639-3 | rmt |
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| Glottolog | doma1258 |
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 Domari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO
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